Nine Suitcases by Bela Zsolt

Nine Suitcases by Bela Zsolt

Nine Suitcases is a horror story but, sadly, a true one. Zsolt was both an accomplished novelist and a highly skilled journalist. He reports and analysizes the appalling events, almost immediately after they occurred, with exceptional freshness and a devastating blend of angry despair and cool detachment.

[A] heartbreaking memoir.. Unbearably immediate -- Laurence Phelan * Independent on Sunday *
A sombre yet strangely beautiful account, devoid of sentimentality...the recent publication of his work in English is long overdue -- Phil Baker * Sunday Times *
Remarkable...exceptional -- Caroline Moorehead * Times Literary Supplement *
This is by far the best book I've come across on the subject of the extermination of Hungary's Jews -- Tibor Fischer * Guardian *
Very, very rarely you read something that knocks the breath out of you... This masterpiece does -- Carole Angier * Literary Review *

Béla Zsolt was one of Hungary's best-known writers in the early twentieth century. Born in 1895, he served in the Austro-Hungarian Army from 1914 to 1918 and in a Hungarian-Jewish forced-labour unit in 1942-1943. In 1944, after a spell in a Hungarian ghetto and a German concentration camp, he found refuge in Switzerland. In 1945 he returned to Hungary and in 1947 became an anti-communist member of parliament. He died in 1949.

Ladislaus Löb was born in Transylvania. He is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Sussex.

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ISBN 13	9780712606899
ISBN 10	0712606890
Title	Nine Suitcases
Author	Bela Zsolt
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage
Year published	2005-04-07
Number of pages	336
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