Marga Minco - Het bittere kruid: Een kleine kroniek. Met tekeningen van Herman Dijkstra

Marga Minco - Het bittere kruid: Een kleine kroniek. Met tekeningen van Herman Dijkstra - Den Haag - Bert Bakker / Daamen NV - 1957 - 1st edition - 128 pp. - Pocketbook - 10,5 x 17 cm. - Cover design: [Herman] Berserik.

Condition: Good.

The first edition of the much-translated war chronicle Het bittere kruid (Bitter Herbs), together with Anne Frank's Diary a classic in European literature about World War II. Illustrated with black and white drawings by the Groningen artist Herman Dijkstra (1904-1976). Series Ooievaar [pockets] 56. Cf. De Bakker p. 39; 'T is vol van schatten hier... p. 88-89; Jessica Voeten, Een kleine documentatie afb. 4.

The debut of Marga Minco (pseudonym of Sara Menco, 1920-2023).

¶ Translation of a fragment from a contemporary Dutch book review (by Gerrit Kouwenaar):
"[The] historical drama Marga Minco manages to live up to in a literary way by rendering the special so simplified that it is transferred to a general plan, which in fact is no longer tied to a certain time - the only plan that, strangely enough, therefore stands up against time, human forgetfulness and the uncanny logic of so-called realistic politicians."