A Scrap of Time and Other Stories

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories
Original title Skrawek czasu
Translator Madeline Levine and Francine Prose
Published Pantheon Books, 1987
Pages 165
Awards Anne Frank Prize, PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
ISBN 9780394558066
OCLC 609356447
LC Class PG7165 .I44 S513 1987

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories,[1] written by Ida Fink, is a collection of fictional short stories relating various characters to the Jewish experience of the Holocaust. Originally written in Polish, it was translated by Madeline Levine and Francine Prose. The novel won the first Anne Frank Prize, as well as the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize. Published in 1987, this novel illustrates the continuing effect of the Holocaust on the Jewish psyche.


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Themes and motifs

The list of short stories

The stories in the collection are as follows:

Footnotes

  1. The University of Chicago Press (2001–2007). "A scrap of time and other stories". BiblioVault. Retrieved 2007-02-08.
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