A Tale of One January (Calder Publications)

Albert Matz, Distinguished Professor Introduction by Patrick Chura

ISBN 10: 0714550620 / ISBN 13: 9780714550626

Published by Calder Publications Ltd 2023-05-02, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Tale of One January (Calder Publications)
• Publisher: Calder Publications Ltd 2023-05-02
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0714550620
• ISBN 13: 9780714550626
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Poland, January 1945. Two women and four men escape from a Nazi death march. Each is from a different background and a different country, but all have endured the horrors of imprisonment in Auschwitz. They find refuge in an abandoned factory, and suddenly they realize that they are no longer mere numbers. Even in their wild euphoria at being free, however, they can have no certainty about their future.
This is a tale of exploding joy within a hothouse of fear, a tale of human beings erupting into life after breaking free of the embrace of death – an unusual and moving tale that cements Albert Maltz's reputation as a compassionate observer of character and one of the finest storytellers of his generation.

About the Author

Albert Maltz (1908–85) was an American playwright, fiction writer and screenwriter. He won the O. Henry Award twice. His novel The Cross and the Arrow about the German resistance to the Nazi Regime was distributed to 150,000 American soldiers during WWII. He worked on a series of films including Casablanca, until he was blacklisted during the mccarthyism era. He is best remembered today for his novels A Tale of One January and A Long Day in a Short Life.