The Diary Of A Young Girl
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Publisher Description
Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year old school girl. Oh well, it doesn’t matter. I feel like writing.
-Anne Frank
The Diary of a Young Girl is a remarkable first-hand account of the life of a holocaust victim, Anne Frank. A young girl in her teenage, Anne, documented her experiences from 1942 to 1944 during the German occupation of the Netherlands. Living in hiding with her family for these tumultuous years, Anne documents not only the upheaval of the dark times but also the plain and simple emotions and views of a teenage girl. This marvelously rendered account is not only a potent reminder of the horrors of the evils perpetrated by humans but also is a vivid and earnest testimonial of the human spirit.
“The single most compelling personal account of the Holocaust . . . remains astonishing and excruciating.”
-The New York Times
“How brilliantly Anne Frank captures the self-conscious alienation and naïve self-absorption of adolescence.”
-Newsday
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.
