The Boxer by Becker, Jurek

The Boxer (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781611457858)

Vendor: Jurek Becker
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Format: Paperback
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The Boxer by Becker, Jurek

The Boxer

$14.95
The Boxer by Becker, Jurek

The Boxer

$14.95
Format: Paperback
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Released from a concentration camp after the war, Aron Blank looks for and eventually finds the only other surviving member of his family, his son Mark, whom he was forced to abandon when Mark was only two years old. Working first in the black market and later as a Russian interpreter, Aron tries to rebuild a normal life for himself and his son in East Berlin. Decades later, with Mark lost in the Six-Day War, Aron tells his story to a young interviewer--the flow of his poignant narrative occasionally interrupted by their brief exchanges, which are peppered with humor. Written with the understated elegance that brought Becker worldwide acclaim for Jacob the Liar, this is a rare portrait of Jewish life in postwar Germany and a profoundly human story of survival, friendship, and fatherly love.

Author: Jurek Becker
ISBN-10: 1611457858
ISBN-13: 9781611457858
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Language: English
Published: 07/09/2013
Pages: 292
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.90d
By Jurek Becker
By Jurek Becker
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Jurek Becker was born in Lodz, Poland, in 1937. A Holocaust survivor, he was one of the very few Jews to remain in Germany after the war. He became an internationally acclaimed novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter and died in 1997.

Alessandra Bastagli is the translator of Primo Levi's stories in A Tranquil Star and his essays in The Complete Works. She lives in New York.

Ruth Franklin is a contributing editor at The New Republic and the author of A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction.

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