The shawl / Cynthia Ozick
Material type: TextSeries: Vintage internationalPublication details: New York : Vintage Books , 1990.Edition: 1st Vintage international edDescription: 69 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 9780394579764
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Fiction / Ficción | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles | General | FIC OZI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 024562 |
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"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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