The Seventh Well
Original title: Siebente Brunnen
Translated by Michael Hofmann first published 1976 W. W. Norton, 2007 hardcover 192 pages
An Austrian Jew and photojournalist who was interned at 20 different Nazi camps between 1939 and 1945, Wander (1917-2006) first published this loosely structured novel in East Germany in 1970. Spare, haunting anecdotes memorialize Jews who died senseless, undignified deaths in Nazi concentration camps. The book is much more than a catalogue of horrors and of courage, as Wanders's narrator struggles to find the langua...
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