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Metcalf writes about Harriet Taubman, the black slave who ran an "underground railway" to the North prior to the Civil War. He contrasts her story to illegal immigrants trying to enter the USA. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited by Reinhold Aman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited by Reinhold Aman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited by Reinhold Aman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Muller presents a fictionalized account of the Russian round-up of German civilians living in Romania in 1944 and imposition of them into a forced labor camp in Russia until 1950 based upon discussions with Oscar Pastior who subsequently wrote concrete poetry.Amazon.com: It was an icy morning in January 1945 when the patrol came for seventeen-year-old Leo Auberg to deport him to a camp in the Soviet Union. Leo would spend the next five years in a coke processing plant, shoveling coal, lugging bricks, mixing mortar, and battling the relentless calculus of hunger that governed the labor colony: one shovel load of coal is worth one gram of bread.In her new novel, Nobel laureate Herta Muller calls upon her unique combination of poetic intensity and dispassionate precision to conjure the distorted world of the labor camp in all its physical and moral absurdity. She has given Leo the language to express the inexpressible, as hunger sharpens his senses into an acuity that is both...

Scope and Contents From Publishers Weekly: With this sardonic, entertaining legal thriller about a discrimination suit brought against a high-level corporate executive by his administrative assistant, Fortune columnist Bing tells a story of sexual harassment that's not about sex. Robert Harbert, or Harb, executive vice-president of Global Corporation's Total Quality department, falls for gorgeous uber-temp of indeterminate race CaroleAnne Winters, who saves the day on an important project. Recognizing her talent, Harb hires CaroleAnne full-time, but their cordial business relationship quickly grows too cozy: Harb gets CaroleAnne a corporate apartment to help her escape an abusive husband, gives her his aging car and brings her on business trips, which include boozy late nights that stop short of physical intimacy. CaroleAnne's behavior becomes erratic, though, when her spiritual side surfaces and she begins holding prayer meetings with a companion in the company's empty offices. Her tightly wound...