by Yannick Haenel · GALLIMARD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070123117
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«Jan Karski» is the novel by Yannick Haenel, published by Gallimard in paperback (192 pages, in French).
Warsaw, 1942: Jan Karski, a messenger of the Polish Resistance, enters the Warsaw Ghetto clandestinely and travels to London and Washington to alert the Allies to the extermination of Europe's Jews. The author blends document and fiction to tell his life and the silence that surrounded his testimony.
Published in 2009, the work belongs to the L'Infini collection and was awarded the Prix Interallié and the Prix du roman Fnac.
For readers interested in World War II, the memory of the Holocaust, and the dilemmas of transmitting historical testimony.
Yannick Haenel is a French writer, cofounder of the literary magazine Ligne de risque.
