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    <body><![CDATA[The Shawl, a short story, tells of Rosa, her niece Stella, and infant Magda in the concentration camp, a dense and intense meditation on survival, delusion, and madness of that horror; followed by 'Rosa,' a longish story that flashes decades forward when Rosa is in Miami Beach, still trying to survi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69385561">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, just wow. The opening story about the shawl <em>alone</em> will suck you into this story. It's historical fiction in a sense, but the story it tells in a thin, thin volume packs a big punch. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wasn't blown away by this book, although it's more of an extended short story than a novel (and I'm short-story stupid, so my opinion should matter very little).<br/><br/>I found the treatment of motherhood interesting, though.  How motherhood defines a woman, even after a child's death.  And I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48241296">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The edition I read had both the short story <em>The Shawl</em>, and a novella called <em>Rosa</em>.  The first is a heart rending story of a Polish woman, her daughter and niece in a concentration camp during World War II.  The second takes the story of the mother thirty years later in Florida, and tells how her expe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60518125">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I knew it was supposed to be about the Holocaust, but it’s really more about the aftermath. The first story, The Shawl, takes place in the death camp. It’s very short. The second Story, Rosa, takes place in Miami. It’s longer than The Shawl, but it too is pretty short. They are both written in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38943284">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ozick is probably right in saying that one should not write Holocaust fiction because the horror of the Holocaust suffices for itself. Yet there is value to her brief re-imagining of the horror of the murder of a child amidst everyday murder, if only because the terrifying event in her fiction is so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75875501">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the short story The Shawl and the novella Rosa that follows it. I hated Rosa but loved the Shawl so I guess that's why I gave it three stars.<br/><br/>I've always been drawn to Holocaust stories, both fiction and non-fiction, even though they always leave me feeling depressed. The Shawl is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49690140">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I used to teach this book. It is painfully beautiful. This book (really a short story and a novella combined) might be short but it is full of nuances. Rosa's pain is searing and haunting and her love for and loss of Magda, her daughter, serves to exemplify the loss all Holocaust survivors feel. I f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61876801">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I actually listened to this on Selected Shorts podcast on the way to school. I nearly cried when it was over. It is one of those stories that you have to hear/read at least once, and never again. It was incredibly moving and disturbing. You really have to be prepared for it, because it will leave yo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73869730">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This nonfiction story is so powerful, so gut wrenching, and so honest.  I wrote two papers in grad school over the story &quot;The Shawl&quot; and &quot;Rosa&quot;.  I felt &quot;Rosa&quot; the lesser known story honestly is the better of the two; however, EVERYONE who reads and studies the Holocaus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39444901">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I get too caught up in the poetry of Ozick and I lose the story. She reads more like a poetry, which is probably why I liked the short story a lot more than the novella.  I had to struggle to stay in it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[You have to be pretty powerful in the literary world to get them to publish a 69-page book.  I think it's more interesting if taken as a bare-bones novel, instead of separate stories.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Shawl (Vintage International) by Cynthia Ozick (1990)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[To much despair. Perhaps Rosa will one day find some happiness. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[tear jerker ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very powerful.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Intense!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[it bothered me that this was a work of fiction. <br/>also, the book forces you to contemplate the post-war life of a mother whose baby was killed during the holocaust. she is in florida and her life is a waking nightmare. being forced to confront the reality that the atrocities of the holocaust mus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16052647">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Heart wrenching.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book contains the short story &quot;The Shawl&quot; and the novella, &quot;Rosa.&quot;  The compilation gets four stars, because I found the novella... not quite amazing.  Though certainly very very good.<br/><br/>But &quot;The Shawl&quot; may be the most brilliant and carefully worded Holoca...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24227715">more...</a>]]></body>
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