{"product_id":"a-little-annihilation-paperback","title":"A Little Annihilation - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnna Janko\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePhilip Boehm\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Scenes from the war live on as trauma in the memory of the next generation. \u003ci\u003eA Little Annihilation\u003c\/i\u003e by Anna Janko is an extraordinarily personal and powerful account of how the worst wartime atrocities affect ordinary people and are seldom recorded in the official histories.\"\u003cb\u003e--OLGA TOKARCZUK, winner of the Man Booker International Prize for \u003ci\u003eFlights\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJune 1, 1943, Eastern Poland. Within just a few hours, the village of Sochy had ceased to exist. Buildings were burned. Residents shot. Among the survivors was nine-year-old Teresa Ferenc, who saw her family murdered by German soldiers, and would never forget what she witnessed the day she became an orphan. The horror of that event was etched into her very being and passed on to her daughter, author Anna Janko. \u003ci\u003eA Little Annihilation\u003c\/i\u003e bears witness to both the crime and its aftershocks--the trauma visited on the next generation--as revealed in a beautifully scripted and deeply personal mother-daughter dialogue. As she fathoms the full dimension of the tragedy, Janko reflects on memory and loss, the ethics of helplessness, and the lingering effects of war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eChildren in war and second-generation trauma Eastern Poland, June 1, 1943. It took just a few hours for the village of Sochy to cease to exist. Buildings were burned. Residents shot. Among the ruins, there remained one house, a few survivors―one of whom was nine-year-old Teresa Ferenc, mother of Anna Janko. Young Teresa saw how German soldiers murdered her family, an image which accompanied her throughout her orphanage years. An image she was never able to forget. Anna Janko tells her mother's story in this strong, contemporary testimony on second-generation trauma, told from a multi-generational, all-female perspective. The brutal yet beautifully described history of the pacification of the Polish countryside becomes the starting point for a deeply personal study of ethical and existential helplessness, and the lingering effects of war. \"A Little Annihilation explores war and the relentless grind of history on a human scale--and as such, it is a haunting word of warning for the present and the future.\" European Literature Network \"As with Svetlana Alexievich's reportage, in this book war is shown not only as a tragic episode in history, but as a living memory, which even after many years puts us on our guard as a danger which could recur.\" Lithub\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eANNA JANKO\u003c\/b\u003e is one of the best-known contemporary Polish writers. A poet and literary critic, Janko has twice been nominated for the Nike Literary Prize (2001, 2013). She has also been nominated for the Angelus Central European Literature Award in 2008 and again in 2016, where \u003ci\u003eA Little Annihilation\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist. She has won multiple awards and literary prizes including the City of Gdańsk Book of the Year (1981) and the Dresden Independent Writers' Society Prize (1993) for her entire poetic oeuvre. A film based on \u003ci\u003eA Little Annihilation\u003c\/i\u003e, under the title \u003ci\u003eA Minor Genocide\u003c\/i\u003e, was released in 2017. It won major prizes at international film competitions in New York and Calcutta and received the Humanitarian Award in 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePHILIP BOEHM\u003c\/b\u003e is an American playwright, theater director, and literary translator based in Houston, Texas. His career has zigzagged across languages, borders, and cultural divides. He studied at the State Academy of Theater in Warsaw, Poland, and has directed extensively on both sides of the Atlantic. He has translated more than thirty novels and plays, mostly by German and Polish writers including Herta Müller, Franz Kafka, and Hanna Krall. For this work he has received numerous awards, including fellowships from the NEA and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 02, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42700814647359,"sku":"9781642860665","price":20.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/756a56d26adbd565af0c8392b7893c58.webp?v=1765018277","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/a-little-annihilation-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}