{"product_id":"lost-bread-9781589881785","title":"Lost Bread","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLost Bread\u003c\/i\u003e adds an essential chapter to the literature of the Holocaust. With a broad transnational sweep, it recounts a refugee's search for a new home, from country to country, until finally settling in Italy. In this elegant translation, the voice of Edith Bruck--Italy's most important witness together with Primo Levi--reaches the English reader with all its poignance and raw emotional power.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Michael F. Moore, translator of \u003ci\u003eThe Drowned and the Saved\u003c\/i\u003e, by Primo Levi, and \u003ci\u003eThe Betrothed\u003c\/i\u003e, by Alessandro Manzoni \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDrawing on the remarkable events of her own life, renowned author and Holocaust survivor Edith Bruck tells the story of Ditke, a young Jewish girl living in Hungary during World War II. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIn 1944, twelve-year-old Ditke, her parents, and her siblings are\u003cbr\u003eforced out of their home by the Nazis and sent to a series of concentration camps, including\u003cbr\u003eAuschwitz and Dachau. Miraculously surviving the war with one of her sisters, \u003cbr\u003ebut losing her parents and a brother, Ditke begins a tortuous journey--first\u003cbr\u003eback to Hungary, where she knows she doesn't belong, and then to Israel. There, \u003cbr\u003eshe holds various jobs before she leaves with a dance troupe, touring Turkey, \u003cbr\u003eSwitzerland, and Italy. In Italy she finds a home, at last, and a small measure\u003cbr\u003eof peace; there, too, she falls in love and marries. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWriting\u003cbr\u003eas herself, Edith Bruck closes \u003ci\u003eLost Bread \u003c\/i\u003eby addressing a letter to God expressing her rejection of hatred, her love for life, and her hope\u003cbr\u003enever to lose her memory or ability to continue speaking for those who perished\u003cbr\u003ein the Nazi concentration camps. After the book's publication in Italy, Pope\u003cbr\u003eFrancis visited Bruck and thanked her for bearing witness to the atrocities of\u003cbr\u003ethe Holocaust.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Dry Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/18\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781589881785\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 142\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.35h x 5.28w x 0.47d","brand":"Edith Bruck","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42935617585333,"sku":"9781589881785","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_9f75532b-c65a-457d-9f1b-3ead2eea8cd2.jpg?v=1688490649","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/lost-bread-9781589881785","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}