{"product_id":"childhood-paperback-6","title":"Childhood - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJona Oberski\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJim Shepard\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by), \u003cb\u003eRalph Manheim\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA rediscovered masterpiece: an unblinking view of the Holocaust through a child's eyes\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Told from the perspective of a child slowly awakening to the atrocities surrounding him, \u003ci\u003eChildhood \u003c\/i\u003eis a searing story of the Holocaust that no reader will soon forget. As five-year-old Jona waits with his mother and father to emigrate from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to Palestine, they are awakened at night, put on a train, and eventually interred in the camps at Bergen-Belsen. There, what at first seems to be a merely dreary existence soon reveals itself to be one of the worst horrors humanity has ever created. A triumph of heartrending clarity and dispassionate amazement, \u003ci\u003eChildhood \u003c\/i\u003estands tall alongside such monuments of Holocaust literature as \u003ci\u003eThe Diary of Anne Frank, \u003c\/i\u003eElie Wiesel's\u003ci\u003e Night, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePrimo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJona Oberski\u003c\/b\u003e is a Dutch nuclear and particle physicist. He was born in 1938 and lives in Amsterdam. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJim Shepard \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Aron, \u003c\/i\u003ea novel narrated by a child in a Warsaw Ghetto orphanage, as well as several other novels and collections of short stories, including \u003ci\u003eLike You'd Understand, Anyway, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich won The Story Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. He teaches at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRalph Manheim \u003c\/b\u003e(1907-1992) was a noted translator. The PEN\/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation is named in his honor.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.6 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 25, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52636432761139,"sku":"9780143107415","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/57DqVVu3oU9780143107415.webp?v=1762271712","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/childhood-paperback-6","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}