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The Shawl is considered a modern classic - a masterpiece in two acts. The horror and desolation evoked through piercing imagery - first through the abomination of a Holocaust concentration camp murder, second through the eyes of the murdered child's mother, thirty years later, now 'a madwoman and a scavenger' - offers the reader a chilling insight into the empty suffering of a 'survivor'. In 'The Shawl', a woman named Rosa Lublin watches a concentration camp guard murder her child, a child barely old enough to walk. The ...

The Shawl 2008, Highbridge Company, Old Saybrook

ISBN-13: 9781598876840

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ISBN-13: 9780752880761

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The Shawl 1991, Jonathan Cape Ltd, London

ISBN-13: 9780224030816

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ISBN-13: 9780679729266

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The Shawl 1989, Knopf Publishing Group, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780394579764

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The Shawl

2008, Audiobook CD

ISBN-13:

9781598876840

The Shawl

2007, Mass-market paperback

ISBN-13:

9780752880761

The Shawl

1991, Paperback

ISBN-13:

9780224030816

The Shawl

1990, Trade paperback

ISBN-13:

9780679729266

The Shawl

1989, Hardcover

ISBN-13:

9780394579764

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Aug 26, 2007

Silence and Survival

"The Shawl," by Cynthia Ozick, is one of the most celebrated imaginative works to emerge from the Holocaust experience. Written in a hallucinatory, concentrated prose, the story is told from the fevered perspective of a mother, Rosa, who along with her teenaged daughter Stella and the infant Magda hidden in a shawl, are being sent to a concentration camp, malnourished and cold. At times Ozick's imagery reminds one of Marc Chagall's paintings: Rosa is "a floating angel," while Magda's eyes are "horribly alive, like blue tigers." Elsewhere the narrator only alludes to the Nazi horror as in the crematoriums' "ash-stippled wind." The story's themes are survival and death, the dehumanization of deprivation and starvation, but also the muteness and voicelessness and primal instincts of the internees, the impossible choices posed by an intolerable condition.

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