A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (Penguin International Writers) - Softcover
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Winner of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
Winner of the Anne Frank Prize
These shattering stories describe the lives of ordinary people as they are compelled to do the unimaginable: a couple who must decide what to do with their five-year-old daughter as the Gestapo come to march them out of town; a wife whose safety depends on her acquiescence in her husband's love affair; a girl who must pay a grim price for an Aryan identity card.
Winner of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
Winner of the Anne Frank Prize
These shattering stories describe the lives of ordinary people as they are compelled to do the unimaginable: a couple who must decide what to do with their five-year-old daughter as the Gestapo come to march them out of town; a wife whose safety depends on her acquiescence in her husband's love affair; a girl who must pay a grim price for an Aryan identity card.
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Ida Fink (1 November 1921 – 27 September 2011) was an Israeli Polish-language Jewish author who wrote about the Holocaust.
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- PublisherPenguin Books Ltd
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0140118020
- ISBN 13 9780140118025
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages144
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