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The street sweeper

Working as a street cleaner at a large city hospital, paroled felon Lamont Williams forges an unlikely friendship with a dying man; while struggling professor Adam Zignelik discovers wrenching historical recordings of victims of the Holocaust.

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  • ""The twenty-first century struggles of an African American probationary janitor in a Manhattan hospital and an untenured historian at Columbia University lead to one greater story encompassing the civil rights struggle in the United States and the Nazi crimes against humanity in Europe. The story deals with memory, love, guilt, heroism, the extremes of racism, and unexpected kindness, crossing continents and time in an epic tale of unforgettable force"--p. [4] of cover."
  • "From the author of Seven Types of Ambiguity, an epic that reaches across generations and spans continents, revealing the interconnectedness and interdependence of humanity and the profound impact of memory on our lives."
  • "From the civil rights struggle in the United States to the crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau, there are momentous stories everywhere. But only some survive to become history. This is an astonishing feat of storytelling that addresses the personal and the political as it sweeps across the globe, through the seminal events of the twentieth century to the present. Honest, hypnotic and redemptive, this is a novel that explores the responsibility of the historian, the weight of history on all of us, and the crucial role that bearing witness plays in breaking the cycle of human cataclysm."
  • "How breathtakingly close we are to lives that at first seem so far away. From the civil rights struggle in the United States to the Nazi crimes against humanity in Europe, there are more stories than people passing each other every day on the bustling streets of every crowded city. Only some survive to become history. Recently released from prison, Lamont Williams, an African American probationary janitor in a Manhattan hospital and father of a little girl he can't locate, strikes up an unlikely friendship with an elderly patient, a Holocaust survivor who had been a prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau. A few kilometres uptown, Australian historian Adam Zignelik, an untenured Columbia professor, finds both his career and his long-term romantic relationship falling apart. Emerging out of the depths of his own personal history, Adam sees, in a promising research topic suggested by an American World War II veteran, the beginnings of something that might just save him professionally and perhaps even personally. As these two men try to survive in early twenty-first-century New York, history comes to life in ways neither of them could have foreseen."
  • "From the scars of the civil rights struggle in the United States to the crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau, there are even more stories than there are people passing each other every day on the crowded streets of any major city. Only some of these stories survive to become history."
  • "Working as a street cleaner at a large city hospital, paroled felon Lamont Williams forges an unlikely friendship with a dying man; while struggling professor Adam Zignelik discovers wrenching historical recordings of victims of the Holocaust."@en
  • "Recently released from prison, Lamont Williams, an African American probationary janitor in a Manhattan hospital and father of a little girl he can't locate, strikes up an unlikely friendship with an elderly patient, a Holocaust survivor who had been a prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau. A few kilometres uptown, Australian historian Adam Zignelik, an untenured Columbia professor, finds both his career and his long-term romantic relationship falling apart. Emerging out of the depths of his own personal history, Adam sees, in a promising research topic suggested by an American World War II veteran, the beginnings of something that might just save him professionally and perhaps even personally. As these two men try to survive in early twenty-first-century New York, history comes to life in ways neither of them could have foreseen. Two very different paths - Lamont's and Adam's - lead to one greater story as The Street Sweeper, in dealing with memory, love, guilt, heroism, the extremes of racism and unexpected kindness, spans the twentieth century to the present, and spans the globe from New York to Melbourne, Chicago to Auschwitz."
  • "Een ex-gedetineerde krijgt in de jaren zestig van de 20e eeuw een reclasseringsbaan in een kankerziekenhuis in New York, terwijl een docent geschiedenis in een depressie raakt; zo worden vijftig jaar Amerikaanse, joodse en Europese geschiedenis met elkaar verbonden."
  • "Récemment sorti de prison, Lamont souhaite réussir sa réinsertion, seul espoir pour lui de retrouver sa fille. Non loin de là Adam Zigelnik, professeur d'histoire dont la carrière décline et le couple bat de l'aile, découvre des enregistrements, premiers témoignages de victimes de la Shoah. A travers leurs destins entrecroisés, l'auteur raconte l'histoire du XXe siècle.--[Memento]."
  • ""From the author of Seven Types of Ambiguity, an epic that reaches across generations and spans continents, revealing the interconnectedness and interdependence of humanity and the profound impact of memory on our lives"--"@en
  • ""From the author of Seven Types of Ambiguity, an epic that reaches across generations and spans continents, revealing the interconnectedness and interdependence of humanity and the profound impact of memory on our lives"--"
  • "How breathtakingly close we are to lives that at first seem so far away.From the civil rights struggle in the United States to the Nazi crimes against humanity in Europe, there are more stories than people passing one another every day on the bustling streets of every crowded city. Only some stories survive to become history.Recently released from prison, Lamont Williams, an African American probationary janitor in a Manhattan hospital and father of a little girl he can?t locate, strikes up an unlikely friendship with an elderly patient, a Holocaust survivor who was a prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau.A few blocks uptown, historian Adam Zignelik, an untenured Columbia professor, finds both his career and his long-term romantic relationship falling apart. Emerging from the depths of his own personal history, Adam sees, in a promising research topic suggested by an American World War II veteran, the beginnings of something that might just save him professionally, and perhaps even personally.As these men try to survive in early-twenty-first-century New York, history comes to life in ways neither of them could have foreseen. Two very different paths?Lamont?s and Adam?s?lead to one greater story as The Street Sweeper, in dealing with memory, love, guilt, heroism, the extremes of racism and unexpected kindness, spans the twentieth century to the present, and spans the globe from New York to Chicago to Auschwitz.Epic in scope, this is a remarkable feat of storytelling."@en
  • "Ein mitreissendes Geschichtsepos über die Kraft der Erinnerung und die Macht des Erzählens Ein junger Afroamerikaner, der in der Gesellschaft wieder Fuss zu fassen versucht; ein Holocaust-Überlebender, der auf dem Sterbebett die Vergangenheit aufleben lässt; ein Geschichtsdozent, der um seine Karriere und die grosse Liebe kämpft. Drei Schicksale, wie sie unterschiedlicher kaum sein können, verknüpfen sich in diesem Roman meisterhaft zu einer epischen Erzählung über Erinnerung, Liebe, Schuld und unerwartetes Heldentum. Elliot Perlman führt uns vom Polen der Kriegs-Ära über die amerikanische Bürgerrechtsbewegung der 1960er Jahre bis in das New York der Gegenwart und demonstriert uns, wie wichtig es bleibt, sich zu erinnern und Zeugnis abzulegen - denn Geschichte hat die Eigenschaft, sich zu wiederholen. Elliot Perlman wurde 1964 in Melbourne geboren. Er praktizierte einige Jahre als Anwalt, bis er nach dem Erfolg von 'Drei Dollar', seinem ersten Roman, nach New York zog, wo er sich ausschliesslich dem Schreiben widmete. Perlmans literarisches Werk ist preisgekrönt. Sein zweiter Roman 'Sieben Seiten der Wahrheit', der ihm international den Durchbruch bescherte, ist 2008 bei DVA erschienen und wurde von der Presse als 'grosse Literatur' (Deutschlandradio Kultur) gefeiert; sein dritter Roman wird voraussichtlich 2013 auf deutsch vorliegen. Elliot Perlman lebt heute wieder in Melbourne."
  • "On the crowded streets of New York City there are even more stories than there are people passing each other every day ... only some of these stories survive to become history. Lamont Williams, recently released from prison and working as a hospital janitor, strikes up an unlikely friendship with a patient, an elderly Jewish Holocaust survivor who starts to tell him of his extraordinary past. Meanwhile Adam Zignelik, the son of a prominent Jewish civil rights lawyer, is facing a personal crisis: almost 40-years-old, his long-term relationship is faltering and his academic career has s."@en

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  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Erzählende Literatur"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
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  • "The street sweeper"
  • "The street sweeper"@en
  • "Tonspuren : Roman"
  • "The Street Sweeper : a novel"
  • "Tonspuren Roman"
  • "The street sweeper : [a novel]"
  • "Gadefejeren"@da
  • "Gadefejeren"
  • "The Street Sweeper"
  • "The Street Sweeper"@en
  • "The street sweeper : a novel"@en
  • "The street sweeper : a novel"
  • "The street swipper"
  • "Wat nooit is verteld : slechts weinig verhalen schrijven geschiedenis"
  • "La mémoire est une chienne indocile"
  • "Street sweeper"
  • "The street sweeper a novel"
  • "Wat nooit is verteld"
  • "The street sweeper [a novel]"

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