VERA GRAN: THE ACCUSED

Book ID/图书代码： 02740014B72151

English Summary/英文概要： The extraordinary, controversial story of Vera Gran, beautiful, exotic prewar Polish singing star; legendary, sensual contralto, Dietrich-like in tone, favorite of the 1930s Warsaw nightclubs, celebrated before, and during, her year in the Warsaw Ghetto (spring 1941–summer 1942) . . . and her piano accompanist: W3adys3aw Szpilman, made famous by Roman Polanski’s Oscar-winning film The Pianist, based on Szpilman’s memoir.

Following the war, singer and accompanist, each of whom had lived the same harrowing story, were met with opposing fates: Szpilman was celebrated for his uncanny ability to survive against impossible odds, escaping from a Nazi transport loading site, smuggling in weapons to the Warsaw Ghetto for the Jewish resistance.

Gran was accused of collaborating with the Nazis; denounced as a traitor, a “Gestapo whore,” reviled, imprisoned, ultimately exonerated yet afterward still shunned as a performer . . . in effect, sentenced to death without dying . . . until she was found by Agata Tuszyñska, acclaimed poet and biographer of, among others, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nobel laureate (“Her book has few equals”—The Times Literary Supplement).

Tuszyñska, who won the trust of the once-glamorous former singer, then living in a basement in Paris—elderly, bitter, shut away from the world—encouraged Gran to tell her story, including her seemingly inexplicable decision to return to Warsaw to be reunited with her family after she had fled Hitler’s invading army, knowing she would have to live within the ghetto walls and, to survive, continue to perform at the popular Café Sztuka.

At the heart of the book, Gran’s complex, fraught relationship with her accompanist, performing together month after month, for the many who came from within the ghetto and outside its walls to hear her sing.

Using Vera Gran’s reflections and memories, as well as archives, letters, statements, and interviews with Warsaw Ghetto historians and survivors, Agata Tuszyñska has written an explosive, resonant portrait of lives lived inside a nightmare time, exploring the larger, more profound question of the nature of collaboration, of the price of survival, and of the long, treacherous shadow cast in its aftermath.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 美丽和充满异国情调的战前波兰歌星维拉•格兰非凡的和有争议的故事；传说般的，性感的女低音，迪特里希似的语调，20世纪30年代华沙夜总会最受欢迎的女歌星，她住在华沙的犹太人区（1941年的春季–1942年的夏天）期间非常著名. . . 她的钢琴伴奏：“W3adys3aw Szpilman”，因改编自斯皮尔曼的回忆录，由罗曼•波兰斯基执导的奥斯卡获奖影片《钢琴家》而众所周知。

战争结束后，歌手和伴奏，每个人都过着同样悲惨的生活，遭到对抗的命运：斯皮尔曼有着不可思议在毫无胜算的逆境中生存的能力，从纳粹运输装载现场逃走，为了支持犹太人的反抗走私武器到华沙犹太人区。

格兰被指控与纳粹合作；被谴责是叛徒，是“盖世太保的妓女”，遭到辱骂和囚禁，最终被证明无罪，但作为一个表演者仍然遭到唾弃. . .实际上，被判处了没有死亡的死刑. . .直到她被著名诗人和传记作家以及诺贝尔奖获得者艾萨克•巴什维新•辛格传记的作者阿加塔（她的书屈指可数“——时代文学增刊）发现。

阿加塔赢得了曾经风光无限的名歌手，后来住在巴黎的地下室——年老，愤愤不平，关闭自己远离世界的格兰的信任，她鼓励格兰讲述自己的故事，包括她看似莫名的逃离希特勒的侵略军后回华沙和家人团聚的决定，知道自己会生活在贫民窟的城墙中，为了生存，继续在流行的咖啡馆表演。

本书的核心是格兰与她的伴奏之间复杂和担忧的关系，他们日复一日一起为那些来自贫民窟和围墙外面来听她唱歌的人演奏。

本书借鉴维拉•格兰的思考和回忆，以及档案，信件，报告和对华沙贫民区的历史学家和幸存者的采访，阿加塔描绘了一个爆炸性的，引起共鸣的人物生活在噩梦中的生活，探索关于合作的性质，生存的代价，以及隐藏在其后果下的长期和危险的阴影的更重大更深刻的问题。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：“阿加塔的诗中对饱受苦难的非正统派女英雄的叙述抓住了我……深深地感

“呼吁这个想法，若真相从未到来，若不能得到一个答案那就应作为一个问题留下来……迷人。”特雷西•麦克尼科尔，新闻周刊

“Tuszynska’s poetic narrative with its tortured antiheroine grabbed me hard… deeply moving.” —Louise Steinman, Los Angeles Review of Books

“A call for the idea that the last word, where clarity has never come, should linger as a question if it can’t be an answer… captivating.” —Tracy McNicoll, Newsweek

About the Author/作者介绍： 阿加塔•斯卡于1957年出世在华沙，到了十九岁才知道她是犹太人，而这个秘密被她那从占领波兰的纳粹手中幸存下来的母亲一直瞒着。阿加塔毕业于华沙的戏剧和戏剧艺术学院。她是六本国际翻译诗歌和艾萨克•巴什维新•辛格传记的作者。她是波兰笔会ksawery pruszyń 奖的得主，并获得了富布赖特基金会的资助。她生活在多伦多，华沙和巴黎。

Agata Tuszyńska was born in Warsaw in 1957 and learned at the age of nineteen that she was Jewish, a secret kept by her mother, who survived the Nazi occupation of Poland. Tuszyńska graduated from the Academy of Drama and Theatrical Arts in Warsaw. She is the author of six collections of internationally translated poetry and a biography of Isaac Bashevis Singer. She is the recipient of the Polish PEN Club Ksawery Pruszyński Prize and a grant from the Fulbright Foundation. She lives in Toronto, Warsaw, and Paris.

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