Magdaléna Platzová

Aaron's Leap

Trans. Kathrin Janka
Aarons Sprung Aarons Sprung
Aarons Sprung
Edition Büchergilde, 2010
Language: German
Foreign rights:
Dilia
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Prose

From the English edition:

In a Europe torn by war and revolution, Berta Altmann comes of age as a gifted artist and independent woman. Her search for freedom leads her from Vienna to the Bauhaus school, Weimar Berlin, and Prague. As she encounters the celebrated artists of her time, she engages in aesthetic and ideological battles that will prove to have life-and-death consequences. Based on the real-life story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis who taught art to children in the Nazi transport camp of Terezín and died in Auschwitz, Aaron’s Leap is framed by the lens of a 21st-century Israeli film crew that unknowingly unleashes the haunting force of buried history.

More information on the German edition here.

Information about the original Czech edition

Aaronův skok

Other selected published translations (2)

Aaron's Leap English

Le Saut d'Aaron French

Aarons Sprung
Edition Büchergilde, 2010
Language: German
Foreign rights:
Dilia
http://www.dilia.cz