Book : Etty Hillesum An Interrupted Life The Diaries,...

-Titulo Original : Etty Hillesum An Interrupted Life The Diaries, 1941-1943 And Letters From Westerbork

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Picador

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Review “Remarkable . . . What made life meaningful to Etty was the rare combination of erotic, spiritual, and intellectual passions that made up her thinking heart. A truly great book.” The Washington Post Book World For the first time, Etty Hillesums diary and letters appear together to give us the fullest possible portrait of this extraordinary woman in the midst of World War II. In the darkest years of Nazi occupation and genocide, Etty Hillesum remained a celebrant of life whose lucid intelligence, sympathy, and almost impossible gallantry were themselves a form of inner resistance. The adult counterpart to Anne Frank, Hillesum testifies to the possibility of awareness and compassion in the face of the most devastating challenge to ones humanity. She died at Auschwitz in 1943 at the age of twenty-nine. From the Back Cover For the first time, Etty Hillesums diary and letters appear together to give us the fullest possible portrait of this extraordinary woman. In the darkest years of Nazi occupation and genocide, Etty Hillesum remained a celebrant of life whose lucid intelligence, sympathy, and almost impossible gallantry were themselves a form of inner resistance. The adult counterpart to Anne Frank, Hillesum testifies to the possibility of awareness and compassion in the face of the most devastating challenge to ones humanity. She died at Auschwitz in 1943 at the age of twenty-nine. About the Author Etty Hillesum died at Auschwitz in 1943. She was 29. Her diary has been published as Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life and Letters from Westerbork.Eva Hoffman is the author of Lost in Translation: A Life In A New Language, Shtetl, and The Secret. Her essays and journalism have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Yale Review, and other publications.