{"product_id":"lost-bread-9781589881785","title":"Lost Bread","description":"\u003cb\u003eBruck's \"spare prose captures the raw terror and bitter sorrow of the camps. She also finds lyrical beauty and unexpected joy in moments of calm. Reading her work is like breaking bread with her, seeking light amid the shadows cast by history.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDrawing on the remarkable events of her own life, renowned author and Holocaust survivor Edith Bruck tells the story of Ditke, a young Jewish girl living in Hungary during World War II. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIn 1944, twelve-year-old Ditke, her parents, and her siblings are\u003cbr\u003eforced out of their home by the Nazis and sent to a series of concentration camps, including\u003cbr\u003eAuschwitz and Dachau. Miraculously surviving the war with one of her sisters, \u003cbr\u003ebut losing her parents and a brother, Ditke begins a tortuous journey--first\u003cbr\u003eback to Hungary, where she knows she doesn't belong, and then to Israel. There, \u003cbr\u003eshe holds various jobs before she leaves with a dance troupe, touring Turkey, \u003cbr\u003eSwitzerland, and Italy. In Italy she finds a home, at last, and a small measure\u003cbr\u003eof peace; there, too, she falls in love and marries. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWriting\u003cbr\u003eas herself, Edith Bruck closes \u003ci\u003eLost Bread \u003c\/i\u003eby addressing a letter to God expressing her rejection of hatred, her love for life, and her hope\u003cbr\u003enever to lose her memory or ability to continue speaking for those who perished\u003cbr\u003ein the Nazi concentration camps. After the book's publication in Italy, Pope\u003cbr\u003eFrancis visited Bruck and thanked her for bearing witness to the atrocities of\u003cbr\u003ethe Holocaust.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdith Bruck \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Hungary in 1931, and as a young teen she was deported with her family to the\u003cbr\u003econcentration camps of Auschwitz, Dachau, Christianstadt, Landsberg, and\u003cbr\u003eBergen-Belsen, where she lost both her parents and a brother. After the end of\u003cbr\u003eWWII, she briefly returned to Hungary, lived in Czechoslovakia, and then moved\u003cbr\u003eto Israel, where she stayed for three years. Working for a dancing troupe in 1954 she traveled to Italy where she decided to settle and where she still lives\u003cbr\u003etoday. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBruck is the author of more than twenty books, both prose and poetry, \u003cbr\u003edevoted to her life-long commitment to Holocaust testimony, starting with \u003ci\u003eWho Loves You Like This\u003c\/i\u003e (1959, Italian edition; 2001, English edition, Paul Dry Books)\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eShe has won several Italian literary awards; most recently, in 2021, \u003ci\u003eLost Bread\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the prestigious \u003ci\u003ePremio\u003cbr\u003eStrega \u003c\/i\u003eand winner of \u003ci\u003ePremio Strega giovani\u003c\/i\u003e (youth)\u003ci\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBruck has gained national and international\u003cbr\u003erecognition for her writings in Holocaust testimony and, more generally, in\u003cbr\u003econtemporary Italian literature. Among other honors, in 2021 she received the \u003ci\u003eCavalieriato di Gran Croce\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cbr\u003econferred by the President of Italy. Along with Primo Levi, Edith Bruck is one of the most prolific writers of\u003cbr\u003eHolocaust narratives in Italian. Her books have been translated\u003cbr\u003einto many languages including English, French, German, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, and Hebrew. She lives in Rome. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGabriella Romani\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Italian at Seton Hall University. With Brenda Webster she translated Edith Bruck's \u003ci\u003eLetter to My Mother \u003c\/i\u003e(2006) and Enrico Castelnuovo's \u003ci\u003eThe Moncalvos \u003c\/i\u003e(2017). She is from Rome and now lives in Philadelphia. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Yanoff \u003c\/b\u003eis an attorney and author from Philadelphia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Paul Dry Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50727118176530,"sku":"9781589881785","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9bb631e8-eb75-46b2-af82-b5c9bbb750aa.jpg?v=1734893083","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lost-bread-9781589881785","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}