The Shawl, Cynthia Ozick
The Shawl, Cynthia Ozick
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The Shawl

Author: Cynthia Ozick

Narrator: Yelena Shmulenson

Unabridged: 2 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/12/2008


Synopsis

Two award-winning works of fiction by one of America's finest writers, together in one collection.

In "The Shawl," a woman named Rosa Lublin watches a concentration camp guard murder her daughter. In "Rosa," that same woman appears thirty years later, "a mad woman and a scavenger" in a Miami hotel. She has no life in the present because her past will never end. In both stories, there is a shawl—a shawl that can sustain a starving child, inadvertently destroy her, or magically conjure her back to life.

Both stories were originally published in the New Yorker in the 1980s; each was included in the annual Best American Short Stories and awarded First Prize in the annual O. Henry Prize Stories collection. Each succeeds in imagining the unimaginable: the horror of the Holocaust and the unfillable emptiness of its aftermath. Fiercely immediate, complex, and unforgettable, each is a masterwork by a writer the New York Times hailed as "the most accomplished and graceful literary stylist of our time."

About Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick is the author of several books and a recipient of the PEN/Nabokov Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for fiction, and a National Book Critics Circle winner for criticism.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Angela M on January 27, 2022

I read this short story and novella in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day which is 1/27. This small but powerful book brutally reminds us why we cannot forget. “The Shawl “ is probably the most affecting Holocaust story I have read . I could say it’s gut wrenching and heartbreaking, bu......more

Goodreads review by karen on June 18, 2020

this is the tiniest book of all time, but it still manages to be genuinely moving and have emotional resonance that sticks to yer ribs. i have read some holocaust literature, not a lot, but what i have read has been pretty powerful and devastating stuff. but i also know there is other stuff out ther......more