Velodromo de Invierno (Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Juana Salabert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9507313192 ISBN 13: 9789507313196

Publisher: Seix Barral, 2001

Synopsis

Esta obra ha merecido el Premio Biblioteca Breve 2001. inscripta en el género de la novela de denuncia, recrea el inicio de la concentración, traslado y muerte de los judíos sefardíes de Francia. Escrita en  dos planos temporales: los cuatro días de julio de 1942 en París, en los que se concentró alos judíos en el Velódromo de Invierno y los recuerdos de Ilse Landerman (una niña que consiguió huir de allí), en 1992.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly

Spanish novelist Salabert captured the critics' attention with Arde lo que ser (Burn What Will Be, Destino, 2000), a finalist for that year's Nadal prize. This latest book won the prestigious 2001 Biblioteca Breve award. The novel opens in 1942 at Paris's Vel d'Hiv (Winter Velodrome), where the French police have detained 13,000 Jewish men and women before deporting them or sending them to Auschwitz. Among them is Ilse Landerman, a German-Jewish girl who manages to escape, leaving her mother and brother behind. Ilse's chronicle is made up of flashbacks from before and after the raid that brought her to the velodrome and recollections of her years in exile. Her memories are intermixed with those of Miranda, a Spanish Sefardi who is desperately in love with her, and of Ilse's devoted son, Herschel, a man trying to understand his mother's silences and depression. Herschel and Miranda meet in Spain after Ilse's death in 1992 to come to terms with the past using letters, photos, and Miranda's multiple chronicles of Ilse's life as a refugee in Paris, Portugal, Spain, the United States, and Puerto Rico. This historical novel not only stands out for its original structure and well-crafted narrative but also for its fully developed characters. Recommended for public and academic libraries and bookstores interested in Holocaust fiction.Lourdes V zquez, Rutgers Univ. Libs., New Brunswick, NJ
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About this edition

• Publisher: Seix Barral
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 9507313192
• ISBN 13: 9789507313196
• Binding: Paperback