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Product Description This shattering memoir by a journalist about his father’s attempt to survive the aftermath of Auschwitz in a small industrial town in Sweden won the prestigious August Prize On August 2, 1947 a young man gets off a train in a small Swedish town to begin his life anew. Having endured the ghetto of Lodz, the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the slave camps and transports during the final months of Nazi Germany, his final challenge is to survive the survival. In this intelligent and deeply moving book, Göran Rosenberg returns to his own childhood to tell the story of his father: walking at his side, holding his hand, trying to get close to him. It is also the story of the chasm between the world of the child, permeated by the optimism, progress, and collective oblivion of postwar Sweden, and the world of the father, darkened by the long shadows of the past. Review **Winner of France’s 2014 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger ** **Winner of Sweden’s 2012 August Prize ** “An affecting book, a son’s letter to his father asking for knowledge—lyrically rendered… It is impossible to read this enormously touching work without contemplating the present day.” —WALL STREET JOURNAL “Beautifully wrought… Written with tender precision...” —INTERNATIONAL NEW YORK TIMES “Rosenberg wields deep research and literary empathy in writing about the horrors his parents had lived through before he was born.” —BOSTON GLOBE “ A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz is a touching tribute to a man for whom the paradox of ‘individual repression and collective remembrance’ was simply too much to bear.” —TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT “I can't think of a second-generation work that is equal to A Brief Stop. It's a towering and wondrous work about memory and experience, exquisitely crafted, beautifully written, humane, generous, devastating, yet somehow also hopeful.” —FINANCIAL TIMES “A compelling and poetic reflection on what it took to escape and survive the aftermath of human extinction…This may be a grim subject but it's not a grim book, just a perfectly touching and revelatory read…” —HUFFINGTON POST “A profoundly moving act of remembering, but also a searing investigation of complicity, guilt and shame. Brilliantly and lethally done.” — SUNDAY TIMES (UK) "This brilliant, touching and heart-wrenching story... is my book of the year by some distance." — JEWISH CHRONICLE "This exquisitely wrought book is, among other things, a meditation on the workings of memory and history in one man’s life." — LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS "[A] chiaroscuro composed of more shade than light but one that manages to be all the more revealing because of it. Rosenberg floors us with a shock conclusion and provides us with a wealth of insight on the way to it." —THE DAILY BEAST "[A]t once remarkable testimony and remarkable literature...Brimming with duty-bound love but inescapably tragic at its core, A Brief Stop on the Road From Auschwitz is a tour de force fully on par with Primo Levi's "If This Is a Man" and other literary classics of the Holocaust." —ASSOCIATED PRESS"Destined to become a classic...Göran Rosenberg has written a calm yet passionate account of events after Auschwitz, a memoir that should be read by anyone who ponders the infinite questions of good and evil...With A Brief Stop on the Road From Auschwitz, Rosenberg has not only given us a necessary book but, by confronting unspeakable sorrow with courage and reason, he has created a masterpiece marked by great intelligence and equally great emotional intensity." —ARTS FUSE "Moving and unflinchingly honest...[Rosenberg's] story will stay with you long after you’ve closed the book." —THE IRISH EXAMINER "Wonderful, incisive… A BRIEF STOP ON THE ROAD FROM AUSCHWITZ—part history, part memoir, part essay on the meaning of survival—insists that the Holocaust didn’t end in 1945. The book challenges the powerful redemptive narrative offer
