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008    120106s2012    nyu           000 1 eng  
010      2011050747
020    9780307599582 |qhardback
020    0307599582 |qhardback
035    (OCoLC)ocn767564508
035    242117
049    LHMA
041 1  eng |hfre
040    DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dBTCTA |dBDX |dYDXCP |dNSB |dOCLCO |dIEB |dIUK |dJP3 |dCDX |dGWC |dBWX |dZCU |dIOH |dUBY |dNSB |dP4I |dOCLCQ |dWKM |dOCLCO |dLHM
050 00 PQ2683.I32 |bO8313 2012
100 1  Wiesel, Elie, |d1928-2016.
240 10 Otage. |lEnglish
245 10 Hostage : |ba novel / |cElie Wiesel ; translated from the French by Catherine Temerson.
250    First American edition.
264  1 New York : |bAlfred A. Knopf, |c2012.
300    213 pages ; |c23 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
500    "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
500    Originally published in French in Paris, France, 2010 under the title: Otage.
520    It's 1975, and Shaltiel Feigenberg, a professional storyteller and writer, has been taken hostage. He has been abducted from his home in Brooklyn, New York, blindfolded and tied to a chair in a dark basement. His captors, an Arab and an Italian, don't explain why Shaltiel has been chosen, just that his life will be bartered for the freedom of three Palestinian prisoners. As his days of waiting commence, Shaltiel resorts to what he does best, telling stories to himself and to the men who hold his fate in their hands. A Communist brother and a childhood spent hiding from the Nazis in a cellar, the kindness of liberating Russian soldiers, the unrest of the 1960s are some of the memories that unfold during his captivity, as the outside world breathlessly follows his disappearance and the police move toward a final confrontation with his captors. The author builds the world of Shaltiel's memories, haunted by the Holocaust and a Europe in the midst of radical change. This story is both a thriller and a meditation on the power of memory to connect us to the past and our shared need for resolution.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
650  0 Hostages |vFiction.
650  0 Kidnapping |vFiction.
650  0 Escapes |vFiction.
650  0 Jews |zNew York (State) |zNew York |vFiction.
655  7 Fiction. |2lcgft
700 1  Temerson, Catherine, |etrl.
852 0   |bstacks |hPQ2683.I32 |iO8313 2012