Author:Bela Zsolt,Ladislaus Löb
Originally published in weekly instalments, Nine Suitcases is the Hungarian writer Béla Zsolt's harrowing memoir of his experiences in the ghetto of Nagyvarad and as a forced labourer in the Ukraine. Written with exceptional freshness and a devastating blend of angry despair and cool detachment, Zsolt - one of the earliest writers on the Holocaust - provides not only a rare insight into Hungarian fascism, but a shocking exposure of the cruelty, indifference, selfishness, cowardice and betrayal of which human beings - the victims no less than the perpetrators - are capable in extreme circumstances. Interspersed with moments of grotesque farce, grim irony and occasional memories of human kindness, Zsolt's nightmarish but meticulously realistic chronicle of smaller and larger crimes against humanity is as riveting as it is horrifying.
[A] heartbreaking memoir... Unbearably immediate
—— Laurence Phelan , Independent on SundayA sombre yet strangely beautiful account, devoid of sentimentality...the recent publication of his work in English is long overdue
—— Phil Baker , Sunday TimesRemarkable...exceptional
—— Caroline Moorehead , Times Literary SupplementThis is by far the best book I've come across on the subject of the extermination of Hungary's Jews
—— Tibor Fischer , GuardianVery, very rarely you read something that knocks the breath out of you... This masterpiece does
—— Carole Angier , Literary ReviewA starting point and an intellectual inspiration ... a classic of masterly historical writing.
—— James WalvinJames is not afraid to touch his pen with the flame of ardent personal feeling - a sense of justice, love of freedom, admiration for heroism, hatred for tyranny - and his detailed, richly documented and dramatically written book holds a deep and lasting interest.
—— New York TimesRevolutionarily, the book abandoned the old narrative of black victimhood in favour of accenting the agency of the formerly enslaved who, fuelled by a desire for liberty, fought to achieve autonomy.
—— Colin Grant , ProspectThe standard and the main text through which the Haitian revolution is studied ... a book I've read back to back many times ... An incredibly brilliant book, an undeniably magnificent contribution to scholarship.
—— Akala's Great ReadsReading and rereading The Black Jacobins, I am struck by its incredible wit and humanity, and James' determination to write a history of slavery in the Caribbean in which people of African descent appear as thinking, feeling human agents - in other words, as the protagonists of their own history and not background characters in an essentially European story.
—— Dr Liam J. Liburd, Assistant Professor of Black British History, Durham University
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