Título: Helga's Dairy
Autor: Helga Weiss
Sinopse: 'The most moving Holocaust diary published since Anne Frank' Daily Telegraph First they led us to the baths, where they took from us everything we still had. Quite literally there wasn't even a hair left. I didn't even recognize my own mother till I heard her voice . . . In 1941, aged 12, Helga Weiss, her mother and father were forced to say goodbye to their home, their relatives and all that they knew, and were interned in the Nazi concentration camp of Terezín. For the next three years, Helga documented her experiences there, and those of her friends and family, in a diary. Then they were sent to Auschwitz, and the diary was left behind, hidden in a wall. Helga was one of a tiny number of Jewish children from Prague to survive the holocaust. After she returned home, she eventually managed to retrieve her diary and completed the journal of her experiences. The result is one of the most vivid first-hand accounts of the Holocaust ever to have been recovered. 'Anne Frank's diary finished when her family was rounded up for the camps: in Helga's Diary, we have a child's record of life inside the extermination factories. Shines a light into the long black night that was the Holocaust' Daily Express 'Resounds with a ferocious will to endure conditions of astonishing cruelty. Displays a rare capacity to remain keenly observant and to find the right words for transmitting . . . memory into history' New Statesman 'A moving testimony to courage and endurance. Remarkable . . . what is so compelling is the immediacy and unknowingness' Financial Times
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Helga’s Dairy”, de Helga Weiss, publicado pela editora Viking UK, em 2014 e com 208 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Viking UK
Páginas: 208
Ano: 2014
Edição:
Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN: 9780241959503
ISBN13: 9780241959503
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Viking UK oferecem uma experiência de leitura marcada por narrativas que transitam entre o humor irreverente e o mergulho em questões sociais e históricas densas. O catálogo traz desde relatos pessoais com tom satírico e humor ácido até investigações contemporâneas que exploram a identidade cultural e os efeitos da globalização, sempre com personagens que enfrentam dilemas complexos em cenários urbanos ou históricos. A linguagem varia entre o coloquial e o mais elaborado, com ritmo que ora privilegia o envolvimento emocional, ora o suspense investigativo. Há obras que combinam uma abordagem mais narrativa e ficcional com outras de caráter documental ou ensaístico, sugerindo um interesse editorial em temas que dialogam com a memória, a cultura e as tensões sociais.
