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Cap : The Price of a Life by Roman Frister (2001, Trade Paperback)

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Authors : Frister, Roman. The Cap: The Price of a Life. Title : The Cap: The Price of a Life. Binding : Paperback. Publication Date : Mar 30 2001.

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PublisherGROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated

ISBN-100802137628

ISBN-139780802137623

eBay Product ID (ePID)1781017

Product Key Features

Book TitleCap : the Price of Alife

Number of Pages384 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicHolocaust, Middle Eastern, General, Historical

Publication Year2001

GenrePolitical Science, Fiction, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections, History

AuthorRoman Frister

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight18.5 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal892.4/36

SynopsisUncompromisingly frank, "both brutal and beautifully written" (The Boston Globe), The Cap is an unconventional Holocaust memoir that defies all moral judgment and ventures into a soul blackened by the unforgiving cruelty of its surroundings. Roman Frister's memoir of his life before, during, and after his imprisonment in the Nazi concentration camps sparked enormous controversy and became an international best-seller. With bone-chilling candor, Frister illustrates how the impulse to live unhinges our comfortable notions of morality, blurring the boundary between victim and oppressor and leaving absolutely no room for martyrdom. By the time Roman Frister was sixteen, he had watched his mother murdered by an SS officer and he had waited for his father to expire, eager to retrieve a hidden half loaf of bread from beneath the dying man's cot. When confronted with certain death, he placed another inmate in harm's way to save himself. Frister's resilience and instinct for self-preservation -- developed in the camps -- become the source of his life's successes and failures. Chilling and unsentimental, The Cap is a rare and unadorned self-portrait of a man willing to show all of his scars. Reflected in stark relief are the indelible wounds of all twentieth-century European Jews. An exceptional and groundbreaking testimony, Roman Frister's "gut-wrenching memoir is a must-read." -- Kirkus Reviews, Uncompromisingly frank and unsparing, The Cap is an unconventional Holocaust memoir that defies all moral judgment and ventures into the darkest terrain imaginable: that of a soul blackened by the unforgiving cruelty of its surroundings.