This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen - Softcover

Tadeusz Borowski

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Synopsis

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 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 literature.

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Polish

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9780140186246: This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Penguin Modern Classics)

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ISBN 10:  0140186247 ISBN 13:  9780140186246
Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1992
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