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Jacques Lusseyran And There Was Light (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- And There Was Light : The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II
- Publication Name
- And There Was Light
- Title
- And There Was Light
- Subtitle
- The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9781608682690
- ISBN
- 9781608682690
- Edition
- 3rd ed.
- Publisher
- New World Library
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Release Date
- 18/03/2014
- Release Year
- 2014
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 11.3 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Topic
- Cultural Heritage, Military / World War II, People with Disabilities, Military / General, Historical
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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The book that helped inspire Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See An updated edition of this classic World War II memoir, chosen as one of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century, with a new photo insert and restored passages from the original French edition When Jacques Lusseyran was an eight-year-old Parisian schoolboy, he was blinded in an accident. He finished his schooling determined to participate in the world around him. In 1941, when he was seventeen, that world was Nazi-occupied France. Lusseyran formed a resistance group with fifty-two boys and used his heightened senses to recruit the best. Eventually, Lusseyran was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in a transport of two thousand resistance fighters. He was one of only thirty from the transport to survive. His gripping story is one of the most powerful and insightful descriptions of living and thriving with blindness, or indeed any challenge, ever published.
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New World Library
ISBN-10
1608682692
ISBN-13
9781608682690
eBay Product ID (ePID)
168545471
Product Key Features
Book Title
And There Was Light : The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Military / World War II, People with Disabilities, Military / General, Historical
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
11.3 Oz
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A magical book, the kind that becomes a classic." - Baltimore Sun One of the most powerful memoirs I've ever encountered...[Lusseyran's] experience is thrilling, horrible, honest, spiritually profound, and utterly full of joy." - Ethan Hawke , in the Village Voice One of the most extraordinary books I have ever read. It is why books are published at all." - Mark Nepo , author of Seven Thousand Ways to Listen Lusseyran allows us to glimpse both heaven and hell on Earth through the eyes of a man who has lived through both. His description of what it is like to #145;see' as a blind man is fascinating and inspiring; his account of Buchenwald, where he was condemned to the living hell of the #145;Invalids' Barracks,' is one of the most anguishing fragments of Holocaust testimony that I have ever encountered." - Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times A stunning revelation of human courage and love arising in the midst of implacable human evil. Under it all runs a deep current of mystical truth and hope." - Jacob Needleman , author of An Unknown World An exciting, inspirational account of a life without sight." - Library Journal What normally would seem a tragic plunge into darkness becomes a thrilling journey into light." - Peter Brook , director of the International Centre for Theatre Research, Paris This book is his testament to the joy which exists in all of us, a joy which no conditions - not even the worst - can kill." - Roshi Philip Kapleau , author of The Three Pillars of Zen, "A magical book, the kind that becomes a classic, passed along between friends. . . . How do you explain the incredible suspense of this book? You know he lives. . . . So why is your breath caught in your throat and why can't you put this book down even the second or third time through it?" -- The Baltimore Sun " And There Was Light is the little-known but thoroughly luminous autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran, a blind man who discovered the gift of inner sight after losing his vision in a childhood accident -- and then put his gift to use in the struggle against Nazism. Lusseyran allows us to glimpse both heaven and hell on Earth through the eyes of a man who has lived through both. His description of what it is like to 'see' as a blind man is fascinating and inspiring; his account of Buchenwald, where he was condemned to the living hell of the 'Invalids' Barracks,' is one of the most anguishing fragments of Holocaust testimony that I have ever encountered." -- Jonathan Kirsch, the Los Angeles Times "Blindness and Buchenwald became gateways. This book is his testament to the joy which exists in all of us, a joy which no conditions -- not even the worst -- can kill." -- Roshi Phillip Kapleau, "A magical book, the kind that becomes a classic." -- Baltimore Sun "One of the most powerful memoirs I've ever encountered...[Lusseyran's] experience is thrilling, horrible, honest, spiritually profound, and utterly full of joy." -- Ethan Hawke , in the Village Voice "One of the most extraordinary books I have ever read. It is why books are published at all." -- Mark Nepo , author of Seven Thousand Ways to Listen "Lusseyran writes like an angel, like a mystic. His response to losing his sight at an early age is so surprising that it will change the way anyone thinks about blindness." -- Barbara Brown Taylor , author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark "Lusseyran allows us to glimpse both heaven and hell on Earth through the eyes of a man who has lived through both. His description of what it is like to 'see' as a blind man is fascinating and inspiring; his account of Buchenwald, where he was condemned to the living hell of the 'Invalids' Barracks,' is one of the most anguishing fragments of Holocaust testimony that I have ever encountered." -- Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times "A stunning revelation of human courage and love arising in the midst of implacable human evil. Under it all runs a deep current of mystical truth and hope." -- Jacob Needleman , author of An Unknown World "An exciting, inspirational account of a life without sight." -- Library Journal "What normally would seem a tragic plunge into darkness becomes a thrilling journey into light." -- Peter Brook , director of the International Centre for Theatre Research, Paris "This book is his testament to the joy which exists in all of us, a joy which no conditions -- not even the worst -- can kill." -- Roshi Philip Kapleau , author of The Three Pillars of Zen, A magical book, the kind that becomes a classic." — Baltimore Sun One of the most powerful memoirs I've ever encountered...[Lusseyran's] experience is thrilling, horrible, honest, spiritually profound, and utterly full of joy." — Ethan Hawke , in the Village Voice One of the most extraordinary books I have ever read. It is why books are published at all." — Mark Nepo , author of Seven Thousand Ways to Listen Lusseyran writes like an angel, like a mystic. His response to losing his sight at an early age is so surprising that it will change the way anyone thinks about blindness." — Barbara Brown Taylor , author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark Lusseyran allows us to glimpse both heaven and hell on Earth through the eyes of a man who has lived through both. His description of what it is like to #145;see' as a blind man is fascinating and inspiring; his account of Buchenwald, where he was condemned to the living hell of the #145;Invalids' Barracks,' is one of the most anguishing fragments of Holocaust testimony that I have ever encountered." — Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times A stunning revelation of human courage and love arising in the midst of implacable human evil. Under it all runs a deep current of mystical truth and hope." — Jacob Needleman , author of An Unknown World An exciting, inspirational account of a life without sight." — Library Journal What normally would seem a tragic plunge into darkness becomes a thrilling journey into light." — Peter Brook , director of the International Centre for Theatre Research, Paris This book is his testament to the joy which exists in all of us, a joy which no conditions — not even the worst — can kill." — Roshi Philip Kapleau , author of The Three Pillars of Zen, "A magical book, the kind that becomes a classic." -- Baltimore Sun "One of the most powerful memoirs I've ever encountered . . . [Lusseyran's] experience is thrilling, horrible, honest, spiritually profound, and utterly full of joy." -- Ethan Hawke, in the Village Voice "One of the most extraordinary books I have ever read. It is why books are published at all." -- Mark Nepo, author of Seven Thousand Ways to Listen "No one has written about what it takes to see -- and how to do the looking -- more poignantly than Jacques Lusseyran in his stirring memoir And There Was Light." -- Maria Popova, The Marginalian "Lusseyran writes like an angel, like a mystic. His response to losing his sight at an early age is so surprising that it will change the way anyone thinks about blindness." -- Barbara Brown Taylor, author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark "Lusseyran allows us to glimpse both heaven and hell on Earth through the eyes of a man who has lived through both. His description of what it is like to 'see' as a blind man is fascinating and inspiring; his account of Buchenwald, where he was condemned to the living hell of the 'Invalids' Barracks,' is one of the most anguishing fragments of Holocaust testimony that I have ever encountered." -- Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times "A stunning revelation of human courage and love arising in the midst of implacable human evil. Under it all runs a deep current of mystical truth and hope." -- Jacob Needleman, author of An Unknown World "An exciting, inspirational account of a life without sight." -- Library Journal "What normally would seem a tragic plunge into darkness becomes a thrilling journey into light." -- Peter Brook, director of the International Centre for Theatre Research, Paris "This book is his testament to the joy which exists in all of us, a joy which no conditions -- not even the worst -- can kill." -- Roshi Philip Kapleau, author of The Three Pillars of Zen
Table of Content
1. Clear Water of Childhood 2. Revelation of Light 3. The Cure for Blindness 4. Running Mates and Teachers 5. My Friend Jean 6. The Visual Bind 7. The Troubled Earth 8. My Country, My War 9. The Faceless Disaster 10. The Plunge into Courage 11. The Brotherhood of Resistance 12. Our Own Defense of France 13. Betrayal and Arrest 14. The Road to Buchenwald 15. The Living and the Dead 16. My New World Epilogue Addendum
Copyright Date
2014
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2013-042898
Dewey Decimal
940.53/44092 B
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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