Wiesel, Elie
Mad desire to dance a novel A mad desire to dance Elie Wiesel ; translated from the French by Catherine Temerson. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. - 271 p. ; 22 cm.
"A Borzoi book"--T.p. verso. Originally published: Un desir fou de danser. Paris : Editions de Seuil, 2006.
Sixty year-old Doriel Waldman, a Polish Jew born in 1936, is on the verge of insanity until Dr. Therese Goldschmidt draws him out with his story of surviving the Holocaust in hiding with his father while his mother made a reputation for herself in the Polish resistance--only to die in an accident shortly after the war.
9780307266507 0307266508
Holocaust survivors
Mothers and sons
Immigrants
New York (N.Y.)
Wie 2
Mad desire to dance a novel A mad desire to dance Elie Wiesel ; translated from the French by Catherine Temerson. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. - 271 p. ; 22 cm.
"A Borzoi book"--T.p. verso. Originally published: Un desir fou de danser. Paris : Editions de Seuil, 2006.
Sixty year-old Doriel Waldman, a Polish Jew born in 1936, is on the verge of insanity until Dr. Therese Goldschmidt draws him out with his story of surviving the Holocaust in hiding with his father while his mother made a reputation for herself in the Polish resistance--only to die in an accident shortly after the war.
9780307266507 0307266508
Holocaust survivors
Mothers and sons
Immigrants
New York (N.Y.)
Wie 2