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A Woman in Berlin

內容簡介

內容簡介 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. "With bald honesty and brutal lyricism" (Elle), the anonymous author depicts her fellow Berliners in all their humanity, as well as their cravenness, corrupted first by hunger and then by the Russians. "Spare and unpredictable, minutely observed and utterly free of self-pity" (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland), A Woman in Berlin tells of the complex relationship between civilians and an occupying army and the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject--the mass rape suffered by all, regardless of age or infirmity.A Woman in Berlin stands as "one of the essential books for understanding war and life" (A. S. Byatt, author of Possession).

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各界推薦 【96年8月好讀推薦】一九四五年、柏林、被征服的城市和戰敗國的人民，史載有超過100,000的德國婦女被強暴。而以短句、速記和暗語混雜而成，由無名氏寫下的A Woman in Berlin記載了這最最私密的個人心情，卻反而跨越文化與種族，成為迸發強大共通性與共同性的書寫。不僅限於柏林、不僅代表德國婦女，而屬於歷史上所有遭受過同樣待遇的女人。 這是一本沒有作者，佚名的動人作品，不過我們確信她是在戰爭中遭受犧牲的女性。在1945年，4月蘇聯紅軍在東線對柏林發動總攻擊，在27日攻入柏林市中心，此時八個星期中，獨自居住在柏林的婦女寫下了她自身處於這個如廢墟間的決然自身的處境與周圍諸人的遭遇，也間接描述了數百萬柏林人的困境。 這時的城裡沒有水與食物的供給，冷冽的天氣與紅軍大規模對於婦女的性侵害，不過這本《A Woman in Berlin》的作者卻能保持堅強的態度面對一切，書中沈痛的內容，控訴著男人戰爭的戰場中，飽受忽略與犧牲的卻是這一群在靜默中堅強的女性。知名女作家A. S. Byatt稱該書為瞭解戰爭與生命最重要的讀物之一。

作者介紹

作者介紹 The anonymous author of A Woman in Berlin was a young woman at the time of the fall of Berlin. She was a journalist and editor during and after the war.

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