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Ghislaine Dunant is the author of five books,
among them Brazen and Un effondrement, winner of the Michel Dentan
Prize.
Kathryn M. Lachman is associate professor of
comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
"Deeply researched and deeply empathetic, this is a spectacular
biography.” - CHOICE“This splendid biography brings to life a woman
of uncommon courage and intellect who needs to be better known and
understood in America, in a fine translation by Kathryn Lachman.
Detailed and fully documented, A Life Reclaimed is a gripping
narrative told with empathy and deep understanding of the issues
and traumas faced by so many in the unhappy history of France in
the twentieth century.”- David Bellos, author of Georges Perec: A
Life in Words;
“Five years after its 2016 publication in French, Ghislaine
Dunant’s award-winning biography of Auschwitz and RavensbrÜck
survivor and writer Charlotte Delbo has found its voice in English
in this lyrical, even musical translation by Kathryn Lachman.
Delbo’s life and work have long been regarded as essential reading
for all students of the Holocaust era, and now this staggeringly
beautifully translation of Dunant’s brilliant biography is no less
essential, a must-read for all who ask how art and literature shape
and have been shaped by the concentration camp universe.”- James
Young, author of The Stages of Memory: Reflections on Memorial Art,
Loss, and the Spaces Between;
“Charlotte Delbo is one of the most important testimonial writers
of the Holocaust, alongside Primo Levi. She is also one of the rare
witnesses to have focused on the lives of women in Nazi
concentration camps. As the first biography of Delbo to appear in
English, A Life Reclaimed is likely to become a reference for
anyone seeking context for Delbo’s work. The translation is
excellent.”- David Caron, author of The Nearness of Others:
Searching for Tact and Contact in the Age of HIV ;
“The force and focus of Dunant’s biography is its evocation of the
lived experience of its subject. Given the extremity, indeed
horror, of the central episode of that life, no one should, would,
or could suggest that Dunant’s biography allows its readers to
share Delbo’s point of view. What it does do, however, is bring us
closer to that perspective, and make unmistakable its importance,
not just for understanding (if such a thing is possible) one of the
most unspeakable episodes of human history, but for responding to
the political exigencies of our own times.”- Jim Hicks, executive
editor of the Massachusetts Review
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