Author:Borowski, Tadeusz

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This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Penguin Modern Classics)

By: Borowski, Tadeusz

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: August 1992

Seller ID: 152075

ISBN: 0140186247

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup, an extra blanket or the luxury of a pair of shoes with thick soles; and where the line between normality and abnormality vanishes. Published in Poland after the Second World War, these stories constitute a masterwork of world literatu...
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