A Little Annihilation

A Memoir

A Little Annihilation
Philip Boehm, Anna Janko
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1 Jun 2020 UK
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9781642860665
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June 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. A Little Annihilation 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. ' Scenes from the war live on as trauma in the memory of the next generation. A Little Annihilation 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. ' - Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Man Booker International Prize for Flights ' This is a book about children in war and how we inherit trauma - factual and unflinching, but touching and tender. . . 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
"Scenes from the war live on as trauma in the memory of the next generation. A Little Annihilation 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. "--OLGA TOKARCZUK, winner of the Man Booker International Prize for Flights"This shocking yet tender story rendered me speechless for several hours. Anna Janko drags her family' s tragic past out from the recesses of memory, but she also provides us with a lifeline. " --WIOLETTA GREG"This is a book about children in war and how we inherit trauma--factual and unflinching, but touching and tender. . . 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"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"War-time trauma can be carried over to the next generations and Anna Janko creates a powerful story of her inherited fear. This is a daring book about dealing with the painful family memories of World War II and the Holocaust, and about processing the hereditary trauma which has become part of Janko' s DNA. " --Anna Blasiak, Polish/English Translator and Coordinator at the European Literature Network"Janko' s book digs deep into the past and into memory to examine the poisonous influence of family trauma throughout the years. It' s a harrowing journey, and a painful look at the fate of children in war. What makes the book so compelling despite that is the sheer amount of historical, creative and emotional work that we witness Janko doing in order to process what happened. " --Marta Dziurosz, Translator"An exceptional book. Exceptional not just because we believe the author when she speaks of her ' genetic trauma, ' but due to the powerful language which conveys her sadness, anger and goading irony, while verging on cynicism. Emotional truth emanates from this book. " --Gazeta Wyborcza"This book argues strongly against the view that instances of war-related trauma can be ranked in a hierarchy. "--Wprost"Janko has masterfully combined her mother' s memories, accounts from other members of the family who could tell their own versions of the story, and references to academic texts and essays with her own testimony about inheriting such memories and facing the burden and restrictions they impose. "--Onet. pl
ANNA JANKO 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 A Little Annihilation was a finalist. She has won multiple awards and literary prizes including the City of Gdansk Book of the Year (1981) and the Dresden Independent Writers' Society Prize (1993) for her entire poetic oeuvre. A film based on A Little Annihilation, under the title A Minor Genocide, was released in 2017. It won major prizes at international film competitions in New York and Calcutta and received the Humanitarian Award in 2019.
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ISBN-13: 9781642860665
Published: 1 Jun 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: World Editions
Publisher: World Editions
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 216

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