Saving Agnes
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Saving Agnes
A working girl in London is searching for love. Agnes works for a magazine and shares an apartment with two other girls. One day she meets a handsome, mysterious man, just what she was looking for. Alas, he turns out to be a rotter.
Saving Agnes
WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL AWARD 'A writer with a poet's eye for convincing detail.' Sunday Telegraph 'A funny, knowing tale of middle-class, middle-twenties angst ... Cool, resonant, and accomplished.' Independent 'Told with irony and insight and some surreally beautiful imagery. At times it made me laugh out loud.' Sheila MacKay Agnes Day - sub-editor, suburbanite, failure extraordinaire - has discovered disconcerting gaps in her general understanding of the world. Terminally middle-class and incurably romantic, Agnes finds herself chronically confused by the most basic interactions. Life and love go on without her, but with a little façade she can pass herself off as a success. Beneath the fiction, however, the burden of truth becomes harder to bear.
The Other Schindlers
Author: Agnes Grunwald-Spier
language: en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date: 2010-12-26
Thanks to Thomas Keneally's book Schindler's Ark, and the film based on it, Schindler's List, we have become more aware of the fact that, in the midst of Hitler's extermination of the Jews, courage and humanity could still overcome evil. While 6 million Jews were murdered by the Nazi regime, some were saved through the actions of non-Jews whose consciences would not allow them to pass by on the other side, and many are honoured by Yad Vashem as 'Righteous Among the Nations' for their actions. As a baby, Agnes Grunwald-Spier was herself saved from the horrors of Auschwitz by an unknown official, and is now a trustee of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. She has collected together the stories of thirty individuals who rescued Jews, and these provide a new insight into why these people were prepared to risk so much for their fellow men and women. With a foreword by Sir Martin Gilbert, one of the leading experts on the subject, this is an ultimately uplifting account of how some good deeds really do shine in a weary world.