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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 808
EAN num: 9780822210191
ISBN number: 0822210193
Label: Dramatist's Play Service
Manufacturer: Dramatist's Play Service
Printing Date: 1998-01
Publishing house: Dramatist's Play Service
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This is not a novel, but a play. I haven't read it, but seen it performed -- most of the audience was in tears. Before the opening of the play, a Polish Jewish family had been separated: A father and his younger daughter left to join relatives and America; the mother and older sister stayed behind. They were supposed to leave later, but instead were caught in the war, and interned in a concentration camp. As the play opens, the father arrives at the younger sister's apartment and tells her that a relocation agency has told him that her older sister is arriving -- that very day! The authoritarian father tells the young woman her sister (who she can't remember, having been very young when they parted) will stay with her.
As the play unfolds, the growing relationship between the sisters involves a revelation of the younger sister's past, and of the realities from which she was sheltered. As the older sister recalls her own experiences and the fate of her family, her father's responsibility (and by implication, the responsibility of everyone who "looked the other way") is called into question. But the play's tone is one of compassion and understanding of human frailty, softened by moments of humour as the sisters get to know each other and join in resisting their father's old-fashioned authority.
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