NOW IN 19 LANGUAGES
"Let us give recognition to Alison Leslie Gold. Without her and her talent, too, this poignant account,
vibrating with humanity, would not have been written." —Elie Wiesel, Chicago Tribune
"Beautifully written by a person who really cares for other human beings. Her simple style hypnotizes
the reader." —Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Fascinating and deeply affecting." —John Gross, The New York Times
“…written with straightforward, unassuming simplicity …this is a significant piece of history as well as a
valuable document of humanity and courage…” —Faiga Levine, The Washington Post
“A moving tribute to the extraordinary courage of which ordinary people are capable.”
--Rabbi Harold S. Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People
LIZ SMITH - New York Post:
"In Alison Leslie Gold's new book, Love in the Second Act, the writer actor
Andre Gregory explains: 'Act Two is supposed to be the trouble act! Act Three is
where it all gets resolved!'
Gold has interviewed Gregory and 25 others who found love is lovelier the
second time around. The author is known mainly for her writing about Holocaust
subjects, such as "Anne Frank Remembered." (That book, written with Miep Gies,
was translated into 19 languages.)
In 'Second Act,' Gold has talked with icons such as Marianne Ihlen, the muse
who inspired Leonard Cohen to write "Bird on a Wire," and she also spoke to
Patricia Neal, who told her that in spite of marriage to writer Roald Dahl, she
always loved Gary Cooper best."
"This beautifully written book will inspire readers with the knowledge that love can
be stronger and more fulfilling in middle to later life." —Edith Ankersmit Kemp,
LCSW, and Jerrold E. Kemp, ED.D,, Coauthors of Older Couples: New Romances,
Finding and Keeping Love in Later Life
A young Dutch Jewish woman vanishes without a trace, except for the small silver
vase evoking her memory in Alison Leslie Gold's poignant chronicle, Fiet's Vase and
Other Stories of Survival, Europe 1939-1945. Gold, who lost relatives in the
Holocaust, calls it "my job and my passion" to help aging survivors—heroic or
unaccountably lucky—bear witness before it's too late. Each record of "a life wrested
from extinction" reads like a miracle, a silver chalice excavated from dust."
—Oprah Magazine
We must be grateful to Alison Leslie Gold for having done the difficult work of
collecting these stories of survival, and for telling them as they should be told: in
language as transparent as pure water. This book is about the deepest kind of
human suffering, and as such it is a holy book."
—Singrid Nunez, author of For Rouenna and A Feather on the Breath of God
"This important collection of stories preserves more than the memories of ordinary
men and women living through one of the most terrible periods in history. They
remind us of the survival of human strength, courage and love against all odds,
something we all need to remember." —Sharon Salzberg, meditation teacher and
author of Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience and Loving kindness: The
Revolutionary Art of Happiness
RECENTLY TRANSLATED INTO HUNGARIAN, ROMANIAN AND GREEK
The Devil's Mistress, nominated for a National Book Award, is a chilling, satirical work
of extrapolation that has been grafted onto a fragment of Eva Braun's actual diary
written in 1935. Based on extensive research and supported by a factual armature,
this personification of evil takes the reader into the hidden erotic life of Hitler, and—
as she was affectionately nicknamed, Fraulein Effie. And, without ever realizing that
she was the sex slave of one of the cruelest men in history, she was nonetheless
able to chisel out a powerful identity for herself within a loathsome, amoral milieu of
mass killers.
THE DEVIL'S MISTRESS
The Diary of Eva Braun: The Woman
Who Lived and Died with Hitler
A Novel
A SPECIAL FATE: Chiune Sugihara, Hero of the Holocaust
When Chiune Sugihara was growing up in Japan, he had never even met a Jewish
person. There was no way Chiune could know that he would one day save the lives
of thousands of Jews—and become a great hero to the Jewish people. Alison Leslie
Gold interviewed Chiune's wife, Yukiko, as well as other friends and family, in order
to tell this story.
NOW IN 12 LANGUAGES
Readers of Anne Frank's diary "will be grateful for the fuller picture" rendered through
the recollected wartime experiences of Frank's best friend, said the Publisher's
Weekly starred review; "Gold brings home the painful truths that Frank has come to
symbolize."
"A vividly written book that plays daringly in the no-man's land between biography and
fiction. Alison Leslie Gold deserves a wide audience."
—Jay Parini, author of The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Last Year
"This is a fascinating and upsetting book, one that compels the reader to rethink his
notions of the relation between insanity and genius."
—MacDonald Harris, author of The Balloonist and Hemingway's Suitcase
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