Name: Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman, the (Andrze Szczypiorski)
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Author: Szczypiorski, Andrzej ; Glowczewska, Klara ; Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
ISBN: 9780802160430

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Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman, the (Andrze Szczypiorski)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Andrzej Szczypiorski

Introduction by

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Translated by

Klara Glowczewska

Publisher

Grove Press

Language

English

Pages

304

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.6 x 14.0 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.26 kg.

ISBN13

9780802160430

Synopsis "Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman, the (Andrze Szczypiorski) "

Reissued with an introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a stunning and disquieting novel of heroism and cowardiceA masterful novel that was a huge bestseller in Europe, The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman is a testament to the power of literature. Now with an introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who named it her "favorite book no one else has heard of" in the New York Times, the novel follows Irma Seidenman, a young Jewish widow in Nazi-occupied Warsaw in 1943, who possesses two attributes that can spell the difference between life and death: blue eyes and blond hair. With these features, and a set of false papers, she slips out of the ghetto, passing as the wife of a Polish officer, until one day an informer spots her on the street and drags her off to the Gestapo. At times a dark lament, at others a sly and sardonic thriller, The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman is the story of the thirty-six hours that follow Irma's arrest and the events that lead to her dramatic rescue as the last of Warsaw's Jews are about to meet their deaths in the burning ghetto.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

(Introduction by)

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria, 1977) is a Nigerian writer, novelist, playwright. At the age of nineteen, she obtained a scholarship to study communication and political science in Philadelphia. Later, she pursued creative writing at Johns Hopkins University in Portland and earned a master's degree in African studies at Yale University. Her renowned TEDx Talk Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, has become one of the most widely disseminated and read feminist speeches of all time. Currently, she lives between Nigeria and the United States.

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