Description
Book SynopsisBoris Pahor spent the last fourteen months of World War II as a prisoner and medic in the Nazi camps at Bergen-Belsen, Harzungen, Dachau and Natzweiler-Struthof. Twenty years later, as he visited the preserved remains of a camp, his experiences came back to him: the emaciated prisoners; the ragged, zebra-striped uniforms; the infirmary reeking of dysentery and death.
Necropolis is Pahor's stirring account of providing medical aid to prisoners in the face of the utter brutality of the camps - and coming to terms with the guilt of surviving when millions did not. It is a classic account of the Holocaust and a powerful act of remembrance.
Trade ReviewAn extraordinary book . . . The raw intensity of Pahor's writing takes the reader deep into the world of the camps. It stands equal to Primo Levi's If This Is A Man
* * Sunday Times * *
A superb English translation . . . [Pahor's] determination to provide the most truthful account possible brings him to question continually, and to examine every complication and contradiction. This is a testimony all of us would do well to discover * * Los Angeles Review of Books * *
A harrowing book . . . described with hallucinatory precision and exceptionally subtle analysis * * Le Monde * *
Deserves a place alongside Primo Levi and Imre Kertesz's masterpieces of Holocaust literature * * La Repubblica * *
Extraordinarily poetic * * Mirror * *
