by Andrzej Szczypiorski · Diogenes Verlag AG · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783257219456
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«Die schöne Frau Seidenman» is the historical novel by Andrzej Szczypiorski, published by Diogenes Verlag AG in paperback (268 pages, in German).
In Nazi-occupied Warsaw, the novel revolves around the attempt to save Irma Seidenman, a beautiful Polish woman, and interweaves the stories of Jews, resistance fighters, informers and ordinary people. With lyricism and irony, Szczypiorski builds a choral portrait of love, betrayal, sacrifice and moral ambiguity.
The work was originally published in Polish as «Początek» and translated into German by Klaus Staemmler. This edition belongs to the Diogenes-Taschenbuch collection (detebe 21945).
For readers of European historical fiction interested in World War II, the Polish resistance and the Holocaust.
Andrzej Szczypiorski was a Polish novelist and politician. He served as a member of the Polish legislature, and was a Solidarity activist interned during the military crackdown of 1981. He was a secret police agent in the 1950s.
