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Marga Minco

Works by Marga Minco

The Other Side (1959)

by Marga Minco
Translated by Ruth Levitt
Original title: De andere kant

by Marga Minco
Translated by Margaret Clegg
Original title: Een leeg huis

In some ways this is the sequel to Minco’s Bitter Herbs. Whereas the earlier story dealt with a Jewish family whose members were being picked off one by one by the Nazis in wartime Holland, here we see the sole survivor’s attempts to adjust to life after the war. (more...)

Bitter Herbs: A Little Chronicle (1959)

by Marga Minco
Translated by Roy Edwards
Original title: Het bittere kruid

Bitter Herbs: A Little Chronicle (1957)

by Marga Minco
Translated by Roy Edwards
Original title: Het bittere kruid: een kleine kroniek

An Empty House (1966)

by Marga Minco
Translated by Margaret Clegg
Original title: Een leeg huis

The Fall (1983) [Buy Direct]

by Marga Minco
Translated by Jeannette K. Ringold
Original title: De Val

This book is a textured weaving of the elements of chance, fate, uncertainty, premonition and flashback. Minco draws on her Jewish background and her own personal experiences to relate the story of Frieda Borgstein, a Jewish woman who is the sole survivor from her family after the Second World War. (more...)

The Glass Bridge (1986)

by Marga Minco
Translated by Stacey Knecht
Original title: De glazen brug

Like Marga Minco’s other novels, The Glass Bridge is a short, lucid and beautifully crafted piece of work that always says rather more than the words on the page reveal. Every sentence, each scene, is exactly and clearly drawn, but the recurring echoes, (more...)

Bitter Herbs [Buy Direct]

by Marga Minco
Translated by Roy Edwards
Original title: Het bittere kruid