Zohara’s Journey

Barbara Honigmann

1996

I sometimes dream that I’m a prisoner. For days, years. I’m only free at night, for a few hours toward morning. During those hours I can walk around. But I don’t know where to go. All the people I know are asleep, of course, and I’d frighten them if I were suddenly standing in front of their doors, sometime between night and morning. They haven’t…

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Barbara Honigmann

b. 1949

Born in East Germany, Barbara Honigmann, now a resident of France, is a novelist, essayist, and memoirist. Formerly a theater director, she is now a writer and artist; her works often concern Jewish life in postwar Germany. Honigmann received the Koret Jewish Book Award, the Solothurn Prize for Literature, the Jeanette Schocken Prize, and the Kleist Prize.

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