El gueto interior

Saving yourself from horror can become a worse sentence than losing your life. This is the true story of Vicente Rosenberg, the author's grandfather, a Jew who left Poland in the 1920s, leaving behind his parents and brothers to start a new life in Buenos Aires. There he married, had children, became the owner of a furniture store and neglected contact with his family. His mother, however, never stopped sending him letters, a correspondence that became the testimony of a woman who was locked up in the Warsaw ghetto. Those letters tell his son about the hunger, cold and fear that preceded the murder of millions of people across Europe. When Vicente realizes what is happening, it is too late and the letters stop coming. Amigorena revisits the memories and silence of his grandfather in a story that has become a world literary phenomenon. Finalist of the three great literary prizes in France, The Inner Ghetto will be translated into a dozen languages. Martín Caparrós, cousin of the author and also the grandson of the protagonist of this story, has been in charge of the translation into Spanish.