Seven short allegorical tales of characters coping to live in the aftershock of the Holocaust. Grete Weil compares them to survivors of an atom-bomb blast, who live beyond the initial explosion and consider the worst to be over, only to later sicken and die. The survivors' lives are damaged, even physically destroyed, by the aftershock --by their inability to shed the culture of the country from which they have fled, their intense memories of happier times, and by the constant intrusion of the ghosts of both victims and persecutors.
- ISBN10 1567922821
- ISBN13 9781567922820
- Publish Date 1 June 2008
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 3 March 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint David R. Godine Publisher Inc
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 113
- Language English