The Shawl

Author(s): Cynthia Ozick

Fiction

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."


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781474624022
  • : Orion
  • : W&N
  • : 0.3
  • : July 2021
  • : 1.2 Centimeters X 12.8 Centimeters X 19.6 Centimeters
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Cynthia Ozick
  • : Paperback