Between April 20th and June 22nd of 1945 the anonymous author
of A Woman in Berlin wrote about life within the falling city as it
was sacked by the Russian Army. Fending off the boredom and
deprivation of hiding, the author records her experiences,
observations and meditations in this stark and vivid diary.
Accounts of the bombing, the rapes, the rationing of food and the
overwhelming terror of death are rendered in the dispassionate,
though determinedly optimistic prose of a woman fighting for
survival amidst the horror and inhumanity of war. This diary was
first published in America in 1954 in an English translation and in
Britain in 1955. A German language edition was published five years
later in Geneva and was met with tremendous controversy. In 2003,
over forty years later, it was republished in Germany to critical
acclaim - and more controversy. This diary has been unavailable
since the 1960s and is now newly translated into English. A Woman
in Berlin is an astonishing and deeply affecting account.
關於作者:
Author, now dead, is thought to have been a journalist or
publisher.