Sappy Tales and Silent Screams: Subterranean Echoes from the Holocaust

By Norbert Friedman

In the course of trying to have my manuscript Sun Rays at Midnight published, I discovered that there were thousands of other manuscripts by survivors submitted to the Project of Holocaust Survivors' Memoirs and other publishing institutions, manuscripts that for various reasons will never see the light of day. Publishers claim, that because of the flood of the survivors' memoirs, the poor literary quality of most and the similarity of the narrative, there is no market for the memoirs, that despite, that the 2002 Nobel Prize for literature was granted to a Hungarian Holocaust survivor, Imre Kertesz for his memoir "Fateless." That, despite the fact that not so long ago an Oscar was granted for the film, "Pianist"-.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503531392
• ISBN13: 9781503531390
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Xlibris
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"