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The Shop on Main Street
Series: Modern Czech Classics
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This compelling work suits readers interested in historical fiction, Holocaust narratives, and moral inquiries during wartime. It appeals to those seeking thoughtful, humane storytelling grounded in history and personal tragedy.
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Written by a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, The Shop on Main Street is the story that inspired the highly successful Academy Award–winning Czechoslovak film of the same title. Looking at the Holocaust through the eyes of a complicit individual, the narrative follows a good-natured carpenter living in a Slovak town in 1942 who unwittingly becomes a participant in a moral crisis involving the abuse and persecution of Jews.
Describing the film adaptation of Ladislav Grosman’s novel, the New York Times declared that it is a “human drama that is a moving manifest of the dark dilemma that confronted all people who were caught as witnesses to Hitler's terrible crime.” The review continues: “‘Is one his brother's keeper?’ is the thundering question the situation asks, and then, ‘Are not all men brothers?’ The answer given is a grim acknowledgement. But the unfolding of the drama is simple, done in casual, homely, humorous terms—until the terrible, heartbreaking resolution of the issue at the end.”
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Ján Kádar, co-director of the film adaptation, praises Grosman’s humanistic approach and tragicomic style. Marcela Sulak highlights the novel’s powerful question of recognising the neighbour's humanity, calling it both comical and terrifying. Anna Hájková regards Grosman as a key Czech postwar author whose sensitive narrative focuses on ordinary people facing extraordinary times.
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ISBN: 9788024640228
Publisher: Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 December 2019
Country: Czechia
Imprint: Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic
Contributors:
- Translated by Iris Urwin Lewitova
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 1.0mm
Width: 13.0mm
Height: 19.0mm
Weight: 142g
Pages: 150
About the Author
Ladislav Grosman (1921-81) was born in Humenné, Slovakia to a Jewish family; because of this he spent two years of World War II in a forced labor camp. After the war he moved to Prague to study, eventually earning a doctorate in psychology before turning his attention to writing fiction and screenplays. Shortly after the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968, he emigrated to Israel, where he would spend the rest of his days teaching Slavic literature and creative writing at Bar-Ilan University. Iris Urwin Lewitová (1916-2008) was born in Pontypridd, Wales; after World War II she moved to Prague with her Czech husband. In addition to working as a lecturer in the English Department of Charles University, she was a prolific translator of Czech literary and academic texts. Mark Corner is a prize-winning translator of Czech literature and professor who has taught history, religion, political science, philosophy and European studies at the University of Newcastle, Charles University, the University of Leuven, the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, and Vesalius College.
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