书名：The Librarian of Auschwitz奥斯维辛的图书管理员

作者：Antonio Iturbe

出版社名称：Ebury Press

出版时间：2019

语种：英语

ISBN：9781529104776

商品尺寸：12.6 x 2.7 x 19.8 cm

包装：平装

页数：464（以实物为准）

For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Choice: this is the story of the smallest library in the world - and the most dangerous.

'It wasn't an extensive library. In fact, it consisted of eight books and some of them were in poor condition. But they were books. In this incredibly dark place, they were a reminder of less sombre times, when words rang out more loudly than machine guns...'

Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezin ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious books the prisoners have managed to smuggle past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes the secret librarian of Auschwitz, responsible for the safekeeping of the small collection of titles, as well as the 'living books' - prisoners of Auschwitz who know certain books so well, they too can be 'borrowed' to educate the children in the camp.

But books are extremely dangerous. They make people think. And nowhere are they more dangerous than in Block 31 of Auschwitz, the children's block, where the slightest transgression can result in execution, no matter how young the transgressor...

The Sunday Times bestseller for readers of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Choice. Based on the incredible and moving true story of Dita Kraus, holocaust survivor and secret librarian for the children's block in Auschwitz.

安东尼奥·G.伊图尔（Antonio G. Iturbe）1967年生于西班牙萨拉戈萨。从事文化新闻工作二十余年，曾任《加泰罗尼亚报》报社电视台的负责人，电影杂志《神奇》的编辑，1996至2015年任《读什么》杂志社社长。同时跟其他一些媒体也有过合作，如“畅销书”网站、加泰罗尼亚Ona广播电台、Icat调频广播电台、Cope广播电台、《先锋报》和《日报》的每日文化专栏。

发表过小说《扭曲的直肠》和《咸日子》，同时也是儿童系列小说《西托探长办案记》的作者，此小说被翻译成五种语言发表出版。

Antonio Iturbe lives in Spain, where he is both a novelist and a journalist. In researching The Librarian of Auschwitz, he interviewed Dita Kraus, the real-life librarian of Auschwitz.

Lilit Zekulin Thwaites is an award-winning literary translator. After thirty years as an academic at La Trobe University in Australia, she retired from teaching and now focuses primarily on her ongoing translation and research projects.

Dita Kraus was born in Prague. In 1942, when Dita was thirteen years old , she and her parents were deported to Ghetto Theresienstadt and later to Auschwitz,. Neither of Dita's parents survived. After the war Dita married the author Otto B. Kraus. They emigrated to Israel in 1949, where they both worked as teachers They had three children. Since Otto's death in 2000 , Dita lives alone in Netanya. She has four grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Despite the horrors of the concentration camps, Dita has kept her positive approach to life.