Good Owen - Market Day - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: A novel exploring the descent of superficially decent people into vindictive killers. What could bring people to form a mob and attack others? What circumstances could provoke a thirst for blood at the market square? Who will gang up to batter their neighbor improbably returned from deportation? How can a person be swept up among lynchers? P l Z vada's novel examines and analyses the anti - Semitic mass hysteria and political opportunism surrounding the pogroms in Hungary that followed World War II and the Holocaust. In May 1946, at the village market M ria Cs ka witnessed a group of women set upon and beat to death a Jewish egg seller. The wife of a schoolteacher accused of anti - Semitic incitement and daughter of a respected shopkeeper M ria fears for her husband's life yet cannot ignore the victims. The murderous fury spreads through the neighborhood like wildfire dragging out women children and the elderly alike. M ria's notes from the bloody day at the village market and from the subsequent trial in Budapest testify to a state of human relations that is intimately complex and irreparably scarred.
Title: Market Day
Author(s): Good Owen
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
Barcode: 9781803091600
Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Date: 1/25/2024
Category: Religious & Spiritual Fiction