Name: Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman, the (Andrze Szczypiorski) (in English)
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Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 9780802160430

portada Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman, the (Andrze Szczypiorski) (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Andrzej Szczypiorski

Introduction by

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Translated by

Klara Glowczewska

Publisher

Grove Press

Language

English

Pages

304

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.6 x 14.0 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.26 kg.

ISBN13

9780802160430

Synopsis "Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman, the (Andrze Szczypiorski) (in English)"

Reissued with an introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a stunning and disquieting novel of heroism and cowardiceA masterful novel that was a huge bestseller in Europe, The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman is a testament to the power of literature. Now with an introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who named it her "favorite book no one else has heard of" in the New York Times, the novel follows Irma Seidenman, a young Jewish widow in Nazi-occupied Warsaw in 1943, who possesses two attributes that can spell the difference between life and death: blue eyes and blond hair. With these features, and a set of false papers, she slips out of the ghetto, passing as the wife of a Polish officer, until one day an informer spots her on the street and drags her off to the Gestapo. At times a dark lament, at others a sly and sardonic thriller, The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman is the story of the thirty-six hours that follow Irma's arrest and the events that lead to her dramatic rescue as the last of Warsaw's Jews are about to meet their deaths in the burning ghetto.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

(Introduction by)

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(Nigeria, 1977). A los diecinueve años consiguió una beca para estudiar comunicación y ciencias políticas en Filadelfia. Posteriormente cursó escritura creativa en la Universidad Johns Hopkins de Portland y obtuvo un máster de estudios africanos en la Universidad de Yale. Su reconocida TEDx Talk Querida Ijeawele. Cómo educar en el feminismo, se ha convertido en uno de los discursos feministas más divulgados y leídos de todos los tiempos. Actualmente vive entre Nigeria y Estados Unidos.

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