Vengeance is Mine James Brookes

Vengeance is Mine James BrookesA Jewish prisoner, beaten and abused by his captors, finds himself alone with his concentration camp commandant. The commandant's back is turned. His pistol lies within reach. What should the prisoner do? Written in 1943 while Friedrich Torberg, a Viennese Jew, was living in exile in California, Vengeance is Mine is the first English translation of one of the earliest works of Holocaust fiction. In it, Torberg grapples with a choice facing

Going back over the last 300 years and more

comes back to fill its huge fork

translator notes

In the early hours of Good Friday

He grabbed the Siren

an image scratched in sand’

and the sterile

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but they also brim with song and ecstasy

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and also joyful and strong