The shawl / Cynthia Ozick

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Vintage internationalPublication details: New York : Vintage Books , 1990.Edition: 1st Vintage international edDescription: 69 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780394579764
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • FIC OZI
Contents:
The shawl -- Rosa.
Summary: This is actually a five-page prologue and an extended short story. Aside from that, Ozick gives us exactly what we expect: a meditation, in figurative language at times dense and shimmering, at times richly colloquial, of the consequences of the Holocaust. Accompanied by her niece and hiding her tiny daughter, Magda, Rosa stumbles toward a concentration camp, where Magda is to die, flung against an electrified fence. Years later, in America, we meet ``Rosa Lublin, a madwoman and a scavenger, who gave up her store--smashed it up herself--and moved to Miami.'' She still writes to her dead daughter, whose shawl she covets. When Rosa meets brash, voluble Simon Persky at the laundromat, she resists his arguments that ``you can't live in the past'' with some persuasive arguments of her own. Indeed, the reader is uncertain to the end whether Rosa will bend--and whether she ought to. A subtle yet morally uncompromising tale that many will regard as a small gem.
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FIC OZI The Messiah of Stockholm FIC OZI The Puttermesser papers : a novel FIC OZI Foreign bodies FIC OZI The shawl FIC OZI Antiquities FIC PAC The dive from Clausen's pier FIC PAC Drinking coffee elsewhere

"Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., in 1989"--T.p. verso.

The shawl -- Rosa.

This is actually a five-page prologue and an extended short story. Aside from that, Ozick gives us exactly what we expect: a meditation, in figurative language at times dense and shimmering, at times richly colloquial, of the consequences of the Holocaust. Accompanied by her niece and hiding her tiny daughter, Magda, Rosa stumbles toward a concentration camp, where Magda is to die, flung against an electrified fence. Years later, in America, we meet ``Rosa Lublin, a madwoman and a scavenger, who gave up her store--smashed it up herself--and moved to Miami.'' She still writes to her dead daughter, whose shawl she covets. When Rosa meets brash, voluble Simon Persky at the laundromat, she resists his arguments that ``you can't live in the past'' with some persuasive arguments of her own. Indeed, the reader is uncertain to the end whether Rosa will bend--and whether she ought to. A subtle yet morally uncompromising tale that many will regard as a small gem.

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