The Diary of a Young Girl
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Publisher Description
The period of World War II, especially with reference to the German invasions and persecutions of the Jews by the Nazi is one of the darkest periods in the course of humanity. This journal of a teenage girl who along with her family was forced into hiding and had to go through a series of tragedies and total disruption of their everyday lives, brings to light the tortures that people had to go through owing to tyranny of the leaders. The book offers an innocent account of how the girl, Anne, who was transported from her regular life, of school, friends and infatuations, to life of morbid horror and constant fear. An abrupt silent towards the end of the book, screams about the unfortunate end to the plans, visions and future that one weaves with so much hope.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This startling new edition of Dutch Jewish teenager Anne Frank's classic diary--written in an Amsterdam warehouse, where for two years she hid from the Nazis with her family and friends--contains approximately 30% more material than the original 1947 edition. It completely revises our understanding of one of the most moving and eloquent documents of the Holocaust. The Anne we meet here is much more sarcastic, rebellious and vulnerable than the sensitive diarist beloved by millions. She rages at her mother, Edith, smolders with jealous resentment toward her sister, Margot, and unleashes acid comments at her roommates. Expanded entries provide a fuller picture of the tensions and quarrels among the eight people in hiding. Anne, who died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945, three months before her 16th birthday, candidly discusses her awakening sexuality in entries that were omitted from the 1947 edition by her father, Otto, the only one of the eight to survive the death camps. He died in 1980. This crisp, stunning translation provides an unvarnished picture of life in the ``secret annex.'' In the end, Anne's teen angst pales beside her profound insights, her self-discovery and her unbroken faith in good triumphing over evil. Photos not seen by PW.
