Adam Resurrected, Yoram Kaniuk
Adam Resurrected, Yoram Kaniuk
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Adam Resurrected

Author: Yoram Kaniuk

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 15 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/22/2007

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

A former circus clown who was spared the gas chamber so that he might entertain thousands of other Jews as they marched to their deaths, Adam is now the ringleader at an asylum for Holocaust survivors, struggling to make sense of a world in which the line between sanity and madness has been blurred.

About Yoram Kaniuk

Yoram Kaniuk was born in Tel Aviv in 1930 and took part in Israel’s War of Independence in 1948. A painter, journalist, and theater critic, he is best known as a novelist. His books have been translated to great acclaim into more than twenty languages and have earned him the Bialik Prize, the French Prix de Droits de l’Homme, and the Israeli President’s Prize.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Peter on August 28, 2013

Sontag was right, he's one of the world's greatest writers, possibly a genius.......more

Goodreads review by Shelley on May 28, 2019

I wonder if this book was the basis for the lost Jerry Lewis film about the Holocaust called The Day the Clown Cried? This is a difficult book to read. The setting is a mental asylum for Holocaust survivors in Israel. They have all been driven mad by their experiences in the concentration camps. The......more

Goodreads review by Sasha on August 16, 2023

Don't read it......more

Goodreads review by Luis on December 02, 2022

No sabría definir esta lectura. Entiendo que es un compromiso con la causa judía tras la 2 guerra mundial, pero es una locura y un sin sentido. Las vidas de sus personajes son impactantes y en el fondo muy atractivas, pero hay que desmadejar una locura de hilos en las historias contadas. Multitud de......more