The relatively unknown author Joaquim Amat-Piniella recounts his internment in Mauthausen and Ebensee in fictionalized form. This makes it easier for him to report on the cruel experiments on prisoners and the humiliation and torture he experienced. The novel also delves into the psychological impact of such experiences and the resilience of the human spirit. “The title of the novel refers to the letters K.L. Reich (Konzentrationslager Reich), which were stamped on many of the objects and articles in the camp. Amat-Piniella, who worked for a period in the Effektenkammer, the camp’s warehouse, would have seen this stamp innumerable times.” (wikipedia) Amat-Piniella also describes how life in the concentration camp quickly became organized into a kind of camp routine. Critics have placed this book alongside those of great authors such as Jorge Semprún and Primo Levi.
A book that vividly describes the conditions of the Third Reich’s extermination logic from the perspective of a prisoner, serving as a powerful educational tool for readers who want to understand the horrors of the Holocaust.
About (German edition)
- Author: Joaquim Amat-Piniella
- Title: K.L.Reich
- Publication date (German translation): October 17, 2016
- Cover: Hardcover
- Publisher: Czernin Verlag
- Number of pages: 368
- Language: German
- Price: €14.99
- Novel
(English edition)
- Author: Joaquim Amat-Piniella
- Title: K.L.Reich
- Publication date: June, 2014
- Cover: Paperback
- Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Number of pages: 276
- Language: German
- Price: 28,99 Dollar
- Novel
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