This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Recommended by Aleksandar Hemon, and 1 others. See all reviewsTadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup, an extra blanket or the luxury of a pair of shoes with thick soles, and where the line between normality and abnormality completely vanishes.
Published in Poland after the Second World War, these stories constitute a masterwork of... more
Published in Poland after the Second World War, these stories constitute a masterwork of... more
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Aleksandar Hemon This is a book of stories which was originally published immediately after WWII, so they were very fresh, by Tadeusz Borowski: a young Pole who was a member of the Resistance, and who was arrested and incarcerated. (Source)
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