The interior ghetto, by Santiago H. Amigorena

The inner ghetto
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There are novels that confront us with that haunting past that looms over the protagonists. This time it is not so much the past but the shadow of oneself that insists on clinging to his feet despite everything.

Because no matter how much you want to walk new paths, she, the shadow, always returns as soon as the sun rises. Surely to remind us in the paradoxical contrast that our dark side will always be there, overshadowing our little one to advance through the world. That is where the inner ghetto lives, in the darkness that the protagonist projects on his life and his decisions.

The Inner Ghetto is the true story of the author's grandfather, of how the letters from a mother locked up in the Warsaw ghetto plunge her exiled son in Buenos Aires into silence, guilt and helplessness.

I don't know if you can talk about the Holocaust. My grandfather didn't try. And if I tried to find some words, if I looked for how to say what he kept silent, it is not only to calm his pain: it is not to remember it, but to forget it. »

Saving yourself from the horror can turn out to be a worse sentence than losing your life. This is the true story of Vicente Rosenberg, the author's grandfather, a Jew who left Poland in the XNUMXs, leaving his parents and siblings behind to start a new life in Buenos Aires. There he married, had children, became the owner of a furniture store and was neglecting contact with his family.

His mother, however, never stopped sending him letters, a correspondence that became the testimony of a woman who was locked up in the Warsaw ghetto. Those letters tell your son of the hunger, cold and fear that preceded the murder of millions of people across Europe. When Vicente realizes what is happening, it is too late and the letters stop arriving.

Amigorena revisits the memories and silence of her grandfather in a story that has become a worldwide literary phenomenon. Finalist of the three great literary prizes of France, El inner ghetto it will be translated into a dozen languages. Martín Caparrós, cousin of the author and grandson also of the protagonist of this story, has been in charge of the translation into Spanish.

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