{"product_id":"the-photographer-at-sixteen-paperback","title":"The Photographer at Sixteen - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeorge Szirtes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA poet's memoir of his mother that flows backwards through time, through a tumultuous period of European history - a tender and yet unsparing autobiographical journey.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e**A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK**\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA truly remarkable book . . . fiercely compelling EDMUND DE WAAL\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e*WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE* \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e*SHORTLISTED FOR THE JEWISH WINGATE PRIZE*\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eI've read no memoir that moved me more MIRANDA SEYMOUR\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe writing is always scrupulous . . . [a] compelling memoir BLAKE MORRISON\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeautifully written and utterly compelling \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn original, probingly thoughtful memoir EVA HOFFMANN\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn July 1975, Magda Szirtes died in the ambulance on the way to hospital after she had tried to take her own life. She was fifty-one years old. \u003ci\u003eThe Photographer at Sixteen \u003c\/i\u003espools into the past, through her exile in England, her flight with her husband and two young boys from Hungary in 1956 and her time in two concentration camps, her girlhood as an ambitious photographer, and the unknowable fate of her vanished family in Transylvania. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The woman who emerges - with all her contradictions - is utterly captivating. What were the terrors and obsessions that drove her? \u003ci\u003eThe Photographer at Sixteen \u003c\/i\u003ereveals a life from the depths of its final days to the comparable safety of its childhood. It is a book born of curiosity, of guilt and of love.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGEORGE SZIRTES' many books of poetry have won prizes including the T. S. Eliot Prize (2004), for which he was again shortlisted for \u003ci\u003eBad Machine \u003c\/i\u003e(2013). His translation of \u003ci\u003eSatantango\u003c\/i\u003e by László Krasznahorkai (whom he interviewed for \u003ci\u003eThe White Review\u003c\/i\u003e) was awarded the Best Translated Book Award in the US. He is also the translator of Sandor Marai and Magda Szabo. \u003ci\u003eThe Photographer at Sixteen\u003c\/i\u003e is his first venture into prose writing of his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.7 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 28, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766921330976,"sku":"9780857058553","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6958e9fd85a05cd80146c55c8c6213f9.webp?v=1780301035","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-photographer-at-sixteen-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}