The Wall
A war novel about the Warsaw Ghetto and survival.
Work Information
A later edition with ISBN or ASIN was confirmed.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Published
- 1988-03-12
- Pages
- 640 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.18 x 3.68 x 20.32 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780394756967
- ISBN-10
- 0394756967
- Price
- 4806 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Historical
Riveting and compelling, The Wall tells the inspiring story of forty men and women who escape the dehumanizing horror of the Warsaw ghetto. John Hersey's novel documents the Warsaw ghetto both as an emblem of Nazi persecution and as a personal confrontation with torture, starvation, humiliation, and cruelty -- a gripping and visceral story, impossible to put down.
John Hersey was born in Tientsin, China, in 1914 and lived there until 1925, when his family returned to the United States. He studied at Yale and Cambridge, served for a time as Sinclair Lewis’s secretary, and then worked several years as a journalist. Beginning in 1947 he devoted his time mainly to writing fiction. He won the Pulitzer Prize, taught for two decades at Yale, and was president of the Authors League of America and Chancellor of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Hersey died in 1993.
Reviews
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I had read several other works by Hersey, but this is his best by far- far better than I dared hope when I ordered the book from Amazon. The reader is immediately captured by a story that is compelling and realistic, without ignoring a very dark side of human history. It is the best of historical fiction, because you learn a lot without ever finding it tiresome. The characters are fully developed. By the end, I can honestly say that I came to love them. If you are at all interested in the Holocaust in general and Warsaw Ghetto in particular, buy The Wall! It is one of the best novels that I have ever read, and I intend to read Hersey much more widely now.
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I could not put this book down. The plot is very clever, and the events as documented by the narrator are frightful, especially considering they are all historically accurate. This is undoubtedly one of the best books I've ever read.
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A classic of the 20th Century!
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Fiction based upon fact of the horrors of war, faith and survival. It takes place in Poland during WWII, telling the story of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto, their will to survive the atrocities and document all for the sake of history. An outstanding read!
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Hersey's fictional acccount of the last days of the Warsaw ghetto is based on a real life archive collected and hidden by Emmanuel Ringelblum. This extensive material was buried in the ghetto in metal boxes and milk churns which were recovered intact after the war, with the exception of one churn believed still to be beneath the present-day Chinese embassy in Warsaw. Hersey's narrative, written in diary format with copious notes, is not particularly easy to read, but is, nevertheless, able to hold the reader's interest to the end, and his considerable research into contemporary East European Jewish life, language, ceremonies etc. is quite remarkable. One small criticism might be his quite frequent use of rather odd English (some not even in the dictionary!). On the whole, I would recommend this 600-odd word book to any reader new to this tragic subject.