9781943837601 - Esfir Is Alive von Simon, Andrea (3 Ergebnisse)

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Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 271, [5] pages. Decorative front cover and title page. Includes Glossary of Yiddish Words and Phrases and Reading Guide. Andrea Simon is a writer and photographer based in New York City. She has worked as an editor, writer, and manager on diverse projects, and was the co-owner of an editorial/production company that specialized in health-related educational materials. For the past several years, she has devoted her efforts to fiction and literary nonfiction, including her published memoir/history, Bashert: A Granddaughter's Holocaust Quest, her award-winning historical novel, Esfir Is Alive; and her novel-in-stories, Floating in the Neversink. Andrea has published numerous stories and essays and has received prestigious literary honors, including the winner of the Ernest Hemingway First Novel Contest, two Dortort Creative Writing Awards, the Stark Short Fiction Prize, the Short Story Society Award, and the Authors in the Park Short Story Writing Contest. More recent honors include: Esfir Is Alive was a 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist and a 2017 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards winner; Floating in the Neversink was the 2020 New York Indie Author Project winner; and Bashert was number one on the list for the 2021 Book Authority's "Best Holocaust Biography Books of All Time," and was named Honorable Mention 2023 in the Eric Hoffer Award, Legacy Nonfiction. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the City College of New York where she has taught introductory writing and creative writing. Esfir Manevich is a young Jewish girl who lives in the Polish town of Kobrin in 1936. Facing anti-Semitism in public school, Esfir moves in with her charming aunt who runs a boardinghouse in the bustling city of Brest. Being younger than the other boarders, Esfir struggles to find a place in her new life, all the while worrying about her diminishing role in the family she left behind. As the years pass, Esfir experiences the bombing of her hometown during the German invasion of 1939. When the Russians overtake the area, Esfir sees many of her socialist relatives and friends become disillusioned by the harsh restrictions. During the German occupation, Esfir and her family are enclosed in a ghetto where they develop heartbreaking methods of survival. In the summer of 1942, shortly before Esfir's thirteenth birthday, the ghetto is liquidated and the inhabitants are forced onto cattle cars destined for the killing fields -- and Esfir must face unimaginable horror.