Cilka’s Journey: A Novel ** SIGNED 1st Edition/1st Printing **
por Morris, Heather
- Novo
- Capa dura
- Assinado
- first
- Condição
- Novo/New
- ISBN 10
- 1250265703
- ISBN 13
- 9781250265708
- Livreiro
-
Romeoville, Illinois, United States
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Personally signed by Heather Morris on the title page (Not pre-signed on a bookplate or a blank tipped in page bound by the publisher). Not signed to anyone. First Edition / First Printing with full number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Hardcover. Book is NEW and UNREAD, opened only for signing. No marks, no inscription. Not a book club edition, not an ex-library. Dust jacket is new, not price-clipped, in a removable, protective clear cover. This is a beautiful autographed book. Makes a great gift.
Avaliações
4.5★s
"What you are doing, Cilka, is the only form of resistance you have – staying alive. You are the bravest person I have ever known, I hope you know that."
Cilka's Journey is the second novel by Australian author, Heather Morris and is a sequel to The Tattooist of Auschwitz, featuring one of the secondary characters from that story, Cecelia Klein (Cilka). When Russian soldiers liberated Birkenau in January of 1945, Cilka hardly dared believe her ordeal was over. And it seemed that it wasn't.
The Russian agency overseeing the camp quoted from a report on Cilka stating that she collaborated with the Nazis (a position of privilege in a concentration camp, double-edged sword that it is, is bound to engender resentment). For this, she was found to be an enemy of the Russian state and a spy, and was sentenced to fifteen years' hard labour, to be served at Vorkuta Gulag in northern Siberia.
Even though she had already experienced much of what the were being subjected to, it seemed, at first, that each new day brought some fresh hell. Wary of doing anything that might set her apart as in Birkenau, Cilka hesitated when a doctor at the short-staffed hospital, impressed by her languages and her speed of learning, encouraged her to train there as a nurse. When she reluctantly agreed, she made sure to share any advantage her position gave her with the women in her hut.
While Morris never got to interview Cilka the way she did Lale for the Tattooist of Auschwitz, her research is clearly extensive, and she explains in her notes that the story is fiction built on the bones of fact. War, like any adversity, brings out the worst and the best in people. Thus we see that these women, as prisoners of war and as political prisoners, are subjected to deprivation, cruelty and abuse; we also see that some go out of their way to show kindness and care to others.
Morris touches on the murky subject of collaborators (and the stigma attached thereto) if indeed the behaviour of a sixteen year old Jewish girl in a concentration camp, in fear of her life, who is put into an unsolicited position of authority and has to endure regular sexual assault by German officers, could be ever be deemed, as Cilka's was by the Russians, as collaboration. Could any of us say how we might act, put in the same position? What is clear is that Cilka was resilient and very courageous. A moving and thought-provoking read.
This unbiased review is from an uncorrected proof copy provided by NetGalley and St Martin's Press and Echo Publishing
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- Livreiro
- JLJ Books (US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 001586
- Título
- Cilka’s Journey: A Novel ** SIGNED 1st Edition/1st Printing **
- Autor
- Morris, Heather
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Novo
- Condição de sobrecapa
- New
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- First edition /First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1250265703
- ISBN 13
- 9781250265708
- Editorial
- St. Martin's Press
- Local de publicação
- U.S.A.
- Data de publicação
- 2019
- Catálogos de livreiros
- Fiction; Signed book;
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