The Bonfire Of Berlin

Helga Schneider (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2006
Vintage (Verlag)
978-0-09-944373-5 (ISBN)

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Abandoned by her mother, who left to pursue a career as a camp guard at Auschwitz-Birkenau, loathed by her step-mother, cooped up in a cellar, starved, parched, lonely amidst the fetid crush of her neighbours, Helga Schneider endured the horrors of wartime Berlin. The Bonfire of Berlin is a searing account of her survival. The grinding misery of hunger, combined with the terror of air-raids, the absence of fresh water and the constant threat of death and disease served not to unite the tenants and neighbours of her apartment block but rather to intensify the minor irritations of communal life into flashpoints of rage and violence. And with Russian victory the survivors could not look forward a return to peacetime but rather to pillage and rape. It was only gradually that Schneider's life returned to some kind of normality, as her beloved father returned from the front, carrying his own scars of the war. This shocking book evokes the reality of life in a wartime city in all its brutality and deprivation, while retaining a kernel of hope that while life remains not all is lost.

Helga Schneider was born in German Poland but spent her childhood in Berlin where she was raised by her stepmother after being abandoned by her mother. She has lived in Bologna since 1963, and is the author of Let Me Go.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.2.2006
Übersetzer	Shaun Whiteside
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	160 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-09-944373-2 / 0099443732
ISBN-13	978-0-09-944373-5 / 9780099443735
Zustand	Neuware