The Other Side
- Editore:
Peter Owen Publishers
- Traduttore:
- Levitt Ruth
- EAN:
9780720609080
- ISBN:
0720609089
- Pagine:
- 224
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione The Other Side
This is the first collection of stories by the best-selling Dutch writer Marga Minco to appear in English. In several of these, the German Occupation of Holland is relived in the post-war period through a series of vivid vignettes. Others evoke childhood anxieties and social embarrassment, the wish-fulfillment of a spinster and romantic reverie of a young married woman. A girl makes a desperate last attempt to save her parents from transportation to a concentration camp; a Jewish wedding takes place on the eve of the Nazi Diaspora; a neighbour betrays his wartime affiliation by whistling a tell-tale tune. There is a taut episode of shoplifting and portrayal of a patient who suspects she has cancer. Marga Minco has a masterful, subtle talent for projecting the human predicament with telling understatement. Her stories, like her novels, are poignant and compassionate yet never mawkish, and the observation is always sharp.