Resultaten voor 'sharon cameron'
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Up from the Ashes
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sharon Cameron returns with a stunning story about the fight to survive - and find love - in the face of the ugliest of nightmares, based on the true story of two heroes and their resistance in the Sobibor death camp during the Holocaust. Selma Wijnberg is a criminal, a prisoner. Because she is Jewish. For this crime, in the depths of Hitler's occupation of Holland, Selma is deported to the Sobibor death camp, sentenced to sort the clothes of the dead while a smoke made of thousands blackens the sky. And in the light of this enormous funeral pyre, at the end of a Nazi pistol, Selma is ordered to dance. The hand that offers to dance with her is strong. Steady. It belongs to Chaim Engel. Chaim is a Polish Jew and also a prisoner. Chaim and Selma don't speak the same language. But sometimes, love doesn't need a language. Who falls in love in the middle of hell? Chaim and Selma do. And who knew that love could kindle so much hope. But when the prisoners of Sobibor hatch a daring plan of escape, it is time to kill or be killed. The gate or the fire. Chaim and Selma will go out on their feet, or out with the smoke. In an hour of terror and panic, of bullets and bloodshed, Chaim and Selma discover that hope--and two hands twined tightly together--can be the key to keeping two people alive. Based on the remarkable true story of Selma Wijnberg and Chaim Engel, and the infamous revolt and escape of the Sobibor death camp prisoners, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Light in Hidden Places, Sharon Cameron crafts an extraordinary and evocative thriller that celebrates how hope and love can conquer even the most impossible of odds.
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L' inganno. La ragazza che truffò il Terzo Reich
Il romanzo ispirato a due storie vere olandesi: quella del falsario d'arte che ingannò i nazisti e dell'uomo che salvò seicento bambini ebrei dai campi di concentramento. Isa de Smit è cresciuta tra quadri e tavolozze nella galleria d'arte dei suoi genitori fino a quando l'occupazione nazista ha spazzato via ogni colore. Ora Amsterdam non è più la stessa: la Galleria de Smit viene costretta a chiudere i battenti e Truus, la migliore amica di Isa, decide di darsi alla macchia e unirsi alla resistenza olandese. Isa, in accordo con suo padre, decide di vendere ai nazisti una copia falsa di un Rembrandt per rientrare dei debiti della galleria e, sulla strada per l'asta, scopre che Truus si sta occupando di far fuggire i bambini ebrei dalla città per portarli al sicuro. Ma per aiutare le famiglie ebree ci vuole molto denaro e Isa trova una soluzione tanto audace quanto pericolosa: vendere ai nazisti opere d'arte contraffatte. Inizia così un'avventura serrata che tra arte e intrighi traccia pennellate di colore nel capitolo più grigio della storia d'Europa.
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Una luce oltre il buio. La storia della ragazza che sfidò il nazismo
Polonia, 1942. Stefania è una sedicenne come tante. Lavora nel negozio di alimentari della famiglia Diamant e il suo sogno è semplicemente quello di un bacio, magari perfino trovare il vero amore. Ma nel 1942 non esiste la normalità, non si fanno progetti per il futuro: la Germania ha invaso la Polonia, la guerra divide la città, gli amici, le famiglie. Eppure, anche se è impossibile pensare al domani, nella panetteria dei Diamant Stefania conosce Izio. Un ragazzo gentile con cui trova subito l'intesa. Stefania e Izio sembrano perfetti l'uno per l'altra, ma quando i tedeschi irrompono nell'appartamento dei Diamant, Izio viene catturato e caricato su un camion diretto fuori dalla città. È ebreo. E Stefania sa che non lo rivedrà mai più. Ma proprio quando il mondo di Stefania crolla all'improvviso e la sua casa, prima piena di vita, si svuota di ogni emozione, qualcuno bussa alla sua porta. È notte, Stefania non aspetta nessuno. Potrebbero essere i nazisti, potrebbe essere la fine. Oppure, potrebbe essere l'occasione per cambiare la storia.
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The Likeness of Things Unlike
"Sharon Cameron is known for rigorously and brilliantly connecting artistic achievement to ways of thinking. Her significance as a critic is in having taught us that America has not so much "evaded" philosophy as pursued it through its literature. Cameron's latest book is concerned with incommensurable, often discordant, elements of an aesthetic work and how these elements refigure the aesthetic wholes whose integrity they apparently violate. Emily Dickinson, for example, represents things that can't be experienced through the incommensurable register of sensation. Cameron wants to show how Dickinson, Emerson, Whitman, Cather, and Wallace Stevens harness incommensurables to restructure and thereby reconceive categories of a broadly philosophical nature. The works of these authors form a magnetic constellation, bestowing an unstabilized pleasure in our encounters with what can be neither integrated nor categorized"--
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Luz En Los Lugares Ocultos, La
One knock at the door, and Stefania has a choice to make... It is 1943, and for four years, sixteen-year-old Stefania has been working for the Diamant family in their grocery store in Przemysl, Poland, singing her way into their lives and hearts. She has even made a promise to one of their sons, Izio -- a betrothal they must keep secret since she is Catholic and the Diamants are Jewish. But everything changes when the German army invades Przemysl. The Diamants are forced into the ghetto, and Stefania is alone in an occupied city, the only one left to care for Helena, her six-year-old sister. And then comes the knock at the door. Izio's brother Max has jumped from the train headed to a death camp. Stefania and Helena make the extraordinary decision to hide Max, and eventually twelve more Jews. Then they must wait, every day, for the next knock at the door, the one that will mean death. When the knock finally comes, it is two Nazi officers, requisitioning Stefania's house for the German army. With two Nazis below, thirteen hidden Jews above, and a little sister by her side, Stefania has one more excruciating choice to make.
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Het Bluebird geheim
Het Bluebird geheim van Sharon Cameron is een beklemmende pageturner over Project Bluebird, dat echt bestaan heeft. Met dit project probeerde de CIA, door gebruik te maken van technieken die in de concentratiekampen waren ontwikkeld, het geheugen van mensen te resetten. Vlak na de oorlog ontvlucht Eva het verwoeste Berlijn en reist af naar New York. Hier gaat ze op zoek naar de waarheid over haar afkomst en ontdekt ze welke gruwelijke praktijken haar vader tijdens de oorlog uitvoerde. Eva wil maar één ding: gerechtigheid.
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Bij mij ben je veilig
‘Bij mij ben je veilig’ van Sharon Cameron is het waargebeurde verhaal van de jonge Stefania Podgórska, die tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog dertien joden op zolder verborgen hield, onder de ogen van de nazi’s. Het is 1943, en Stefania werkt bij de joodse familie Diamant in hun winkeltje. Als de nazi’s de stad binnenvallen verandert alles. De joodse familie moet in het getto gaan wonen, en Stefania blijft achter in het huis van de familie Diamant. Er kloppen joden bij haar aan om onder te duiken, en Stefania doet er alles aan om hen verborgen te houden en van voedsel te voorzien. En dan, op een kwade dag, wordt er op de deur geklopt. De nazi’s confisqueren het huis en er komen Duitse verpleegsters in het onderste deel van het huis wonen… Een krachtig, hoopvol en ontroerend verhaal over een jonge vrouw die bovenmenselijke moed toont.
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The Light in Hidden Places
DEATH PENALTY FOR ALL WHO GIVE AID TO A JEW.DEATH TO ALL WHO HARBOUR A JEW.DEATH TO ALL WHO FEED A JEW.DEATH TO ALL WHO PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION TO A JEW.One knock at the door could be the death of them all...It is 1943, and sixteen-year-old Stefania Podgórska has been working for the Diamant family in their grocery store in Przemsyl, Poland, for four years. She has even made a promise to one of their sons, Izio - an engagement they must keep secret since she is Catholic and the Diamants are Jewish.But everything changes when the German army invades Przemsyl. The Diamants are forced into the ghetto, and Stefania is alone in an occupied city, the only one left to care for her six-year-old sister. And then comes the knock at the door. Max Diamant has jumped from the train headed to a death camp. Stefania and Helena make the extraordinary decision to hide Max, and eventually twelve more Jews. Then they must wait, every day, for the next knock at the door, the one that could destroy everything...A powerful novel from a New York Times Bestselling author, based on the remarkable true story of Stefania Podgórska, a Polish teenager who hid 13 Jews in her attic during World War Two.
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The Light in Hidden Places
Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podgâorska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio; but when the Nazis came to Przemyâsl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto (and worse) but Izio's brother Max manages to escape, and Stefania embarks on a dangerous course--protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring for her younger sister, Helena, and keeping everything secret from the two Nazi officers who are living in her house.
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Beautiful Work
The stories one tells about pain are profound ones. Nothing is more legible than these stories. But something is left out of them. If there were no stories, there might be a moment of innocence. A moment before the burden of the stories and their perceived causes and consequences. For Anna, the narrator of Beautiful Work, there were moments when it was not accurate to say in relation to pain "because of this‚" or "leading to that." They were lucid moments. And so she began to hunger for storylessness.In order to understand the nature of pain, Anna undertakes a meditation practice. We tend to think of pain as self-absorbing and exclusively our own ("my pain," "I am in pain"). In distinction, Sharon Cameron’s Anna comes to explore pain as common property, and as the basis for a radically reconceived selfhood. Resisting the limitations of memoir, Beautiful Work speaks from experience and simultaneously releases it from the closed shell of personal ownership. Outside of the not quite inevitable stories we tell about it, experience is less protected, less compromised, and more vivid than could be supposed.Beautiful Work brings to bear the same interest in consciousness and intersubjectivity that characterizes Cameron’s other work.
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Lyric Time
"Lyric Time" offers a detailed critical reading of a particularly difficult poet, an analysis of the dominance of temporal structures and concerns in the body of her poetry, and finally, an important original contribution to a theory of the lyric. Poised between analysis of Emily Dickinson's poetic texts and theoretical inquiry, "Lyric Time" suggests that the temporal problems of Dickinson's poems are frequently exaggerations of the features that distinguish the lyric as a genre. "It is precisely the distance some of Dickinson's poems go toward the far end of coherence, precisely the outlandishness of their extremity, that allows us to see, magnified, the fine workings of more conventional lyrics," writes Sharon Cameron. "Lyric Time" is written for the literary audience at large-- Dickinsonians, romanticists, theorists, anyone interested in American poetry, or in poetry at all, and especially anyone who admires a risky book that succeeds.
€ 39,40