A SCRAP OF TIME, And Other Stories by Ida Fink. Translated by Madeline Levine and Francine Prose (1996 1st Ed.)

Author: Ida Fink. Translated by Madeline Levine and Francine Prose. Published by Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois, USA, 1983, 1st Polish Edition, (1996 2nd PB Printing). Printed in Canada. Almost New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with minor cover handling. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inch, 165 pages.

A SCRAP OF TIME, is Ida Fink’s book brimming with stunning short stories, stories that emerged from her wartime experiences as a young Jewish woman in Poland during the Holocaust.

When the Nazi invasion of Poland interrupted her training at the music conservatory, Fink and her sister escaped from the Nazi genocide using forged identity papers. Surviving by assuming a series of false identities, the sisters survived the war and eventually moved to Israel, where Fink began to compose short, delicate, and powerful stories based on her own experiences and those related to her by others. Her subtle and nuanced writing brings memory and imagination to bear on a traumatic past.

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.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: IDA FINK (November 1, 1921–September 27, 2011) was an Israeli Polish-language Jewish author who wrote about the Holocaust.

For more info on this remarkable Author, please see: Ida Fink | Jewish Women's Archive (jwa.org)