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Roots Into Entrails
A review by Karen Vanuska
The bigger the war, the greater the number of books about it. No matter how you define big -- lives lost, cost, population displacement, devastation to infrastructure -- World War II tops the list. Nonfiction tomes aside, over the last sixty years World War II has inspired a plenitude of fiction. From Gunter Grass' The Tin Drum to the works of Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Boll , from the relatively recent discovery and publication of the works of Irene Nemirovsky to a post-War generation of works such as Ursula Hegi's Stones from the River and William T. Vollman's National Book Award winner Europe Central, the stories keep coming. And now, there's another class of World War II fiction -- novels that were published, praised, and forgotten primarily because they happened to be works in translation and failed to receive much attention on this side of the Atlantic. Thanks to the University of Rochester's (euphoniously named) press Open Letter, Landscape in Concrete by Jakov Lind has...
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