{"product_id":"9780803273931","title":"Man of Ashes","description":"\"A poignant, groundbreaking memoir that links the Holocaust and its aftermath to the safe haven that opened for camp survivors in Latin America at mid-century. The controversy surrounding the collaboration between Isacovici and Rodríguez remains an extraordinary opportunity to reflect on the thorny path of Jewish-Hispanic relations worldwide.\"-Ilan Stavans\u003cp\u003e\"Distinguished by geography as well as by its painful testimony. . . . Much of the memoir's early drama involves the creeping Nazi threat opposing Jews' wishful thinking-that the war might be ending and that 'it can't happen here.' . . . The author's family is shattered in Birkenau, but he survives Auschwitz with jobs peeling potatoes and mining coal at Jaworno, and he survives a gruesome death march as the Soviets advance. Isacovici is able to rejoin two brothers in a fruitless return to the family farm and to many European cities in search of a haven. He then joins the family of a woman with whom he has a serious romance, who end up with visas for Ecuador, where he feels an empathy for the suffering of the local Indians. . . . This account tells an unforgettable and unique story.\"-Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSalomon Isacovici died in 1998. Dick Gerdes is a professor of Spanish at George Mason University. Man of Ashes was first published in Mexico in 1990 as A7393: Hombre de cenizas and was awarded the Fernando Jeno Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UNP - Nebraska Paperback","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47011374825712,"sku":"9780803273931","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780803273931_p0.jpg?v=1763667847","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780803273931","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}