The Resource Kapo, Aleksandar Tišma ; translated from the Serbo-Croatian by Richard Williams ; afterword by David Rieff
Kapo, Aleksandar Tišma ; translated from the Serbo-Croatian by Richard Williams ; afterword by David Rieff
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- Summary
- "A devastating novel about the attrocities of WWII, and the unspeakable things people did to survive, by one of Yugoslavia's great literary voices. Lamian is a survivor, but a survivor of a very special kind. He was a Kapo, a prisoner who served as a camp guard in order to save himself. But has Lamian saved himself? The war over, he resumes life in the Bosnian town of Banja Luka, works in a land-surveying office, rents a room, eats as many hot potatoes as he likes, not even bothering to salt them--the quantity is what matters. If only he could stop looking over his shoulder, and flinching on the street in the fear that some stranger will step forward, smack his face, and say in a loud voice, "Here's one!" If only he could stop worrying about Helena Lifka, who turned out to be Yugoslav too, and Jewish too, one of the women he made come naked into the toolshed where he hid the gold, and sit on his lap in exchange for bread and butter and a little warm milk. She could turn up any day, an old woman now, and point an accusing finger. In this masterful novel, Aleksandar Tisma shows step by step how fear can turn an ordinary human being into a monster"--
- Language
-
- eng
- srp
- eng
- Extent
- 305 pages
- Note
- Copyright ©1987 by Aleksandar Tišma, translation copyright ©1993 by Richard Williams
- Isbn
- 9781681374390
- Label
- Kapo
- Title
- Kapo
- Statement of responsibility
- Aleksandar Tišma ; translated from the Serbo-Croatian by Richard Williams ; afterword by David Rieff
- Language
-
- eng
- srp
- eng
- Summary
- "A devastating novel about the attrocities of WWII, and the unspeakable things people did to survive, by one of Yugoslavia's great literary voices. Lamian is a survivor, but a survivor of a very special kind. He was a Kapo, a prisoner who served as a camp guard in order to save himself. But has Lamian saved himself? The war over, he resumes life in the Bosnian town of Banja Luka, works in a land-surveying office, rents a room, eats as many hot potatoes as he likes, not even bothering to salt them--the quantity is what matters. If only he could stop looking over his shoulder, and flinching on the street in the fear that some stranger will step forward, smack his face, and say in a loud voice, "Here's one!" If only he could stop worrying about Helena Lifka, who turned out to be Yugoslav too, and Jewish too, one of the women he made come naked into the toolshed where he hid the gold, and sit on his lap in exchange for bread and butter and a little warm milk. She could turn up any day, an old woman now, and point an accusing finger. In this masterful novel, Aleksandar Tisma shows step by step how fear can turn an ordinary human being into a monster"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1924-2003,
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Tišma, Aleksandar
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Williams, Richard
- Rieff, David,
- Series statement
- New York Review Books classics
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945
- Fear
- Jews
- Fear
- Yugoslavia
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/relation/writerofafterword
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- Label
- Kapo, Aleksandar Tišma ; translated from the Serbo-Croatian by Richard Williams ; afterword by David Rieff
- Note
- Copyright ©1987 by Aleksandar Tišma, translation copyright ©1993 by Richard Williams
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1112387231
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- 305 pages
- Isbn
- 9781681374390
- Lccn
- 2019039526
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1112387231
- Label
- Kapo, Aleksandar Tišma ; translated from the Serbo-Croatian by Richard Williams ; afterword by David Rieff
- Note
- Copyright ©1987 by Aleksandar Tišma, translation copyright ©1993 by Richard Williams
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1112387231
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- 305 pages
- Isbn
- 9781681374390
- Lccn
- 2019039526
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1112387231
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