Hannah's suitcase

Author: Lev
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This reportage, narrating real events, is composed of two intersecting threads across different times and spaces. One thread is Hannah's suffering in Nazi concentration camps half a century ago (relative to the time of writing the book); the other is the journey of a young female curator, Shoko, at the Tokyo Catastrophe Education Center in the present (2000), who goes to great lengths to find the owner of a handbag mailed to her center. The book adopts the oral recordings of two parties – Shoko from the Tokyo Catastrophe Education Center and George, Hannah's brother – allowing them to narrate the story of a girl who died in a Nazi concentration camp half a century ago from their respective perspectives.