Book giveaway -- my translation turns one!

To celebrate the one-year anniversary of my translation, This Darkness Will Never End, I'd like to give away a copy of the book to an interested teacher.

My translation was included in a literature course last year at a university in Ohio, and when I gave a talk there about Edith Bruck, it was a joy to behold watching the professor speak about the stories I'd translated with my whole heart.

Are you a college professor or a high school teacher? Do you teach courses (or a unit) on Holocaust/World War II literature or literature in translation? (Or do you know someone who might want to consider this book for a course adoption?)

The translation would make for an interesting companion piece to Elie Wiesel's Night. The course at Otterbein University in Ohio included Survival in Auschwitz (Primo Levi) and A Scrap of Time (Ida Fink).

Several stories in This Darkness Will Never End feature children or teens as protagonists so high school students might more easily relate to the work; the book is notable for the prominence of women and children in contrast to other well-known examples of Holocaust narrative.

You can leave a message here or send me a private message via my personal website to initiate contact:

https://www.jeannebonner.net/contact

While the book was published in 1962 in Italy, the stories take place before, during and after World War II. They are mainly set in a village in rural Hungary, where Edith was born in 1931. She was deported in 1944, but managed to survive Auschwitz (which she's called "the University of Evil") and a host of other concentration camps. She eventually made her way to Italy and since 1954, that's where she's lived and worked.

To provide a quick overview of the book, here’s a recording of a talk I gave about my translation, courtesy of the wonderful librarians in Northampton, Massachusetts (it includes a lot of biographical information and outtakes from my visit with Edith Bruck last summer in Rome).

The Jewish Book Council published an insightful review, which you can read here:

https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/this-darkness-will-never-end

(You can also click on any of the links in this post for more information).

Happy book birthday to my little translation!

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