Hanna Krall

Zdążyć przed Panem Bogiem

Philip Boehm

After the deportation of her husband to Auschwitzm Izolda Ragenberg, alias Maria Pawlicka, has only one aim: to free her husband. Her race to beat fate might appear absurd to others, but not to her. In times of war and destruction she learns to trust herself.

Chasing the King of Hearts

Synapsy Marii H.

"Ganarle a Dios" consigue iluminar desde una perspectiva nueva uno de los episodios más destacados de la Shoah y de la segunda guerra mundial: El exterminio de los judíos en el gueto de Varsovia y la sublevación de un puñado de resistentes que, prácticamente sin ayuda, desafiaron al poderoso ejército alemán. Estructurado en forma de diálogo entre la autora y Marek Edelman, el único superviviente de los comandantes de la insurrección del gueto, no aspira tanto a recuperar los hechos en su globalidad como su memoria. Hanna Krall, es una de las principales renovadoras de la literatura testimonial polaca.

Ganarle a Dios

And Other True Stories

Woman from Hamburg

an intimate conversation

Shielding the flame

Na wschód od Arbatu

Jacek Antczak

Reporterka

In twelve nonfiction tales, Hanna Krall reveals how the lives of World War II survivors are shaped in surprising ways by the twists and turns of historical events. A paralytic Jewish woman starts walking after her husband is suffocated by fellow Jews afraid that his coughing would reveal their hiding place to the Germans. A young American man refuses to let go of the ghost of his half brother who died in the Warsaw ghetto. He never knew the boy, yet he learns Polish to communicate with his dybbuk. A high ranking German officer conceives of a plan to kill Hitler after witnessing a mass execution of Jews in Eastern Poland. Through Krall's adroit and journalistic style, her reader is thrown into a world where love, hatred, compassion, and indifference appear in places where we least expect them, illuminating the implacable logic of the surreal. "It is precisely the difficult path [Krall] takes toward her topic that has made some of these texts masterpieces." -- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (on Dancing at Other People's Weddings) "Heartbreaking, strange . . . and marvelously told." -- Die Zeit (on Proofs of Existence)

The Woman from Hamburg

Szesc odcieni bieli

Srdcový král

Taniec na cudzym weselu

To ty jesteś Daniel

Schneller als der liebe Gott

This volume presents two works by acclaimed Polish journalist Hanna Krall: The Subtenant, a semi-autobiographical novel, and To Outwit God, a remarkable interview with Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. The Subtenant explores the troubled and ever-shifting relationships between Poles and Jews, beginning with the author's concealment as a child during the Nazi years and ending in 1981 when martial law was declared in Poland. In To Outwit God, Edelman's words assault conventional assumptions about heroes and heroism, taking in his time not only in the Warsaw Ghetto but his careers as a physician and a Solidarity activist. Taken together, the two works form a powerful memoir of Jewish survival, a meditation on Polish-Jewish relations, and a commentary on the forces that have produced modern Polish opposition movements.

The Subtenant ; To Outwit God

An Intimiate conversation with Dr. Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the Warsaw ghetto uprising.

An Intimate Conversation with Dr. Marek Edelman, the Last Surviving Leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Shielding the Flame

This documentary drama is Hanna Krall's own adaptation of her book of the same name, resulting in a series of interviews with Marek Edelman, former deputy commander of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising."

To Steal a March on God

and Other True Stories

Vanaf het moment dat haar man Szajek naar Auschwitz wordt gedeporteerd, probeert Izolda Regensberg hem uit alle macht terug te halen. Ze ontsnapt uit het joodse getto in Warschau, verandert haar naam, verft haar haar, neemt een arische identiteit aan en ondergaat een seksuele vernedering om haar zoektocht mogelijk te maken. Desondanks wordt ze opgepakt, als dwangarbeider tewerkgesteld en naar Auschwitz gezonden. Ze weet echter te overleven en zet haar zoektocht voort.

Hartenheer

Winner of the 2018 PEN Translation Prize. “Krall’s newly translated story of love during the Holocaust is a profound and uplifting masterpiece.” —The Guardian In this canonical work of Polish reportage, Hanna Krall crafts a terse and unexpected human lesson out of a Holocaust novel and love story. A raw interplay of history and fiction spanning the Warsaw Ghetto, Auschwitz, and Zionist Israel, this bestselling novel won the English PEN Award and the Found in Translation Award. One of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2017 “The prose never once seems out of the author’s control, displaying precisely the serious artistry required to elevate and illuminate such harrowing material.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Krall’s unique voice . . . dominates this detached, surreal, curiously playful tale of a woman of indefatigable resourcefulness trapped between history and her heart. A quirky but exceptional story of infinite love and life-sustaining commitment.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Hanna Krall brings Izolda R. to life through dry, factual, rhythmic prose—a litany whose cumulative effect powerfully endears her to readers.” —Slavenka Drakulic, author of Café Europa Revisted “A stirring and powerful document that, while marvelously concise, stands at the crossroads of the horrible history of humanity in the twentieth century.” —Eric Alterman, New York Times-bestselling author of Lying in State “A remarkable find . . . The style is bluntly simple, like the affectless telling of a fable. The reader is held at a distance by a tone that is so studiedly neutral as to be almost jaunty, yet because it is relating the most appalling atrocities it becomes the more affecting.” —The Sunday Times

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