Dobryd

by Ann Charney

Book Overview

This autobiographical first novel is a spare, unsentimental memoir of a young Jewish girl growng up at the end of World War II. The unnamed narrator is five years old when she, her mother and aunt are... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1877946664
• ISBN13: 9781877946660
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Permanent Press (NY)
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

A tough, true fictional account of a child's holocaust

There have been a number of accounts of the Holocaust which claim to be documentary but in fact depend on literary invention. On the other hand, Charney labels her story of a pre-school- age girl hiding for years in the loft of a Polish barn a fiction - because as she explained in a much-discussed letter to The New Yorker she could not vouch for the factual authority of her story since she was so young when she lived it. Though it is fiction in category, it has the grave sculpture of fact in its midst. The great literary integrity of the work lies its deep unsensational account of one of history's most astonishingly sensational tragedies. The book has been richly rewarded with respect in Europe where the reality of the fictional Dobryd is known in thoughtful peoples' bones.This is a classic work.

Could've been better.

This book was pretty boring, i'd think it would have more exciting stuff........ ann, get a life and stop writting this dum books........ Javier