$26.09
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
3 July 2017
Summary
The 20th anniversary edition of a seminal post-Holocaust work.
What right did I possess, as a child of survivors, to recreate an account of the Holocaust as if I was there? In writing The Fiftieth Gate, Mark Baker describes a journey from despair and death towards hope and life; it is the story of a son who enters his parents’ memories and, inside the darkness, finds light. In his evocative prose, Baker takes us to this place of horror, and then brings us back to reflect on t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781925498615 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1925498611 |
| Author: | Mark Raphael Baker |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 3 July 2017 |
| Weight: | 324g |
| Dimensions: | 35mm x 148mm x 199mm |
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Critics Review
‘Combining precise historical research and poetic eloquence, Mark Baker’s The Fiftieth Gate remains the gold standard of second generation Holocaust memoirs on the occasion of its twentieth anniversary edition.’ – Christopher R. Browning
‘Baker does with memory, what Rembrandt does with light. He uses it to model, to imagine, to illuminate, to astonish.’ – Philip Adams
‘Heartrending and beautiful…This simply written, subtly complex narrative is instantly recognisable as a masterpiece, and the reader is rewarded by the light it sheds.’ * Age *
Mark Raphael Baker
Mark Raphael Baker is the author of The Fiftieth Gate, A Journey Through Memory, a seminal book on his parents’ experience during the Holocaust, and the compelling memoir Thirty Days, A Journey to the End of Love, about the recent death of his wife. He is Director of the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation and Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Monash University, Melbourne.
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