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The angel of history /
By: Arpaia, Bruno.
Contributor(s): Proctor, Minna.
Publisher: Edinburgh ; New York : Canongate, c2006Description: 344 p. ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 184195571X (pbk.); 9781841955711:; 9781841955711 (pbk.).Subject(s): Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Fiction | Italian fiction -- Translations into English -- 21st century | World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Fiction | Refugees -- FictionDDC classification: 853.914 Summary: For a brief moment in 1940 the lives of a young Spanish militant and a reclusive academic of German and Jewish heritage are thrown together. Both men have fled their homeland in the face of fascist persecution, yet until the day their paths converge on a remote mountain pass, their experience of war has been vastly different.| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 853.914 ARP (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | M027198 |
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For a brief moment in 1940 the lives of a young Spanish militant and a reclusive academic of German and Jewish heritage are thrown together. Both men have fled their homeland in the face of fascist persecution, yet until the day their paths converge on a remote mountain pass, their experience of war has been vastly different.
Translated from the Italian.