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Sie ist Mitte Zwanzig und hat unvorstellbares -Leid erfahren. Klara war 29 Monate lang in Auschwitz. 29 Monate, die sie nie wird vergessen können. Das behutsame Porträt einer Frau, die gegen ihren Willen ins Leben zurückgeholt wird.

Ce récit se présente sous la forme d'un journal, celui d'Angélika, l'amie et belle-sœur de Klara qui revient d'Auschwitz à Paris après une déambulation à travers l'Europe en août 1945. Le journal s'organise autour de la parole de Klara qui, jour après jour, pendant un mois, dévoile ce qu'elle a vécu. Pas de lamentations, mais elle dit froidement, avec force et violence, sa stupeur et sa colère permanente, son incapacité à accepter les codes de la vie redevenue normale. Elle refuse de revoir sa fille de trois ans et partira, au bout d'un mois, en Amérique. Il existe peu de récits sur le retour des déportés et leur difficile réadaptation à la vie quotidienne
" Je n'avais pas entendu une voix semblable depuis longtemps. " Jorge Semprun - Le Nouvel Observateur

When Klara appears in Paris, two months after the end of the war and years after her disappearance into Auschwitz, her best friend and sister-in-law, Angelika, is elated, if apprehensive. Initially, her fears seem well founded - Klara won't eat, nor will she acknowledge the daughter she has left behind. Gradually, Klara reveals with cold anger and pitiless lucidity, the full extent of what she experienced in Auschwitz as she struggles to readapt to normal life.
Not since Sophie's Choice has a novelist succeeded in conveying - with truth, dignity, power and intelligence - the inhumanity of the death camps and the scars suffered by those who survived them. Refusal is a compelling, elegant and often heart-breaking glimpse into life beyond the horror.

A moving and often heartbreaking glimpse into how the suffering of those imprisoned in the Nazi death camps didn't end with their liberation

This moving and profoundly truthful story is told in the form of diary, kept by Angélika, the sister-in-law and friend of Klara, who wandered through war-ravaged Europe for two months after her release from Auschwitz before returning to Paris in August 1945. Gradually, with cold anger and pitiless lucidity, Klara reveals the full horror of what she experienced in Auschwitz as she struggles to readapt to normal life. With truth, dignity, power, and intelligence, this captivating novel captures the inhumanity of the death camps and the scars suffered by those who survived them.