The Choice
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: uncorrected proof
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Slipcase: Good
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the harrowing depths of Auschwitz, a sixteen-year-old Hungarian Jewish girl made choices that would not only save her life but ultimately liberate her spirit — The Choice is the extraordinary memoir of Dr. Edith Eger, a survivor, psychologist, and one of the most remarkable voices of the twentieth century. Arrested in 1944 and forced to dance for the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele, Eger endures unimaginable horrors, yet her narrative is not one of victimhood — it is a testament to the indomitable resilience of the human mind, chronicling her journey from the death camps of Nazi Germany to the sunlit consulting rooms of America, where she would spend decades helping others heal from their own invisible prisons. Eger writes with the precision of a seasoned clinician and the raw vulnerability of a survivor, weaving together her own harrowing past with the stories of her patients to argue that true freedom is always a matter of choice — an internal act of will that no oppressor can extinguish. Praised by Philip Zimbardo as a universal message of hope, this profound work stands alongside the writings of Viktor Frankl as essential reading on trauma, forgiveness, and the psychology of survival. At once a memoir, a self-help guide, and a work of historical witness, it leaves the reader with a single, haunting question: what imprisons you, and are you ready to choose freedom?
Author: Edith Eger
Format: Paperback
Published: 2017, Rider Books
Genre: Biography
Edition: uncorrected proof
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Slipcase: Good
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the harrowing depths of Auschwitz, a sixteen-year-old Hungarian Jewish girl made choices that would not only save her life but ultimately liberate her spirit — The Choice is the extraordinary memoir of Dr. Edith Eger, a survivor, psychologist, and one of the most remarkable voices of the twentieth century. Arrested in 1944 and forced to dance for the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele, Eger endures unimaginable horrors, yet her narrative is not one of victimhood — it is a testament to the indomitable resilience of the human mind, chronicling her journey from the death camps of Nazi Germany to the sunlit consulting rooms of America, where she would spend decades helping others heal from their own invisible prisons. Eger writes with the precision of a seasoned clinician and the raw vulnerability of a survivor, weaving together her own harrowing past with the stories of her patients to argue that true freedom is always a matter of choice — an internal act of will that no oppressor can extinguish. Praised by Philip Zimbardo as a universal message of hope, this profound work stands alongside the writings of Viktor Frankl as essential reading on trauma, forgiveness, and the psychology of survival. At once a memoir, a self-help guide, and a work of historical witness, it leaves the reader with a single, haunting question: what imprisons you, and are you ready to choose freedom?