The Diary of a Young Girl - The Definitive Edition

Anne Frank

Viking

2012

368 páginas

12h 16m

ISBN-13: 9780670919796

One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime of World War II comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. Today, The Diary of a Young Girl has sold over 25 million copies world-wide; this is the definitive edition released to mark the 70th anniversary of the day the diary begins.

'12 June 1942: I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support'

The Diary of a Young Girl is one of the most celebrated and enduring books of the last century. Tens of millions have read it since it was first published in 1947 and it remains a deeply admired testament to the indestructible nature of the human spirit.

This definitive edition restores thirty per cent if the original manuscript, which was deleted from the original edition. It reveals Anne as a teenage girl who fretted about and tried to cope with her own emerging sexuality and who also veered between being a carefree child and an aware adult.

Anne Frank and her family fled the horrors of Nazi occupation by hiding in the back of a warehouse in Amsterdam for two years with another family and a German dentist. Aged thirteen when she went into the secret annexe, Anne kept a diary. She movingly revealed how the eight people living under these extraordinary conditions coped with hunger, the daily threat of discovery and death and being cut off from the outside world, as well as petty misunderstandings and the unbearable strain of living like prisoners.

The Diary of a Young Girl is a timeless true story to be rediscovered by each new generation. For young readers and adults it continues to bring to life Anne's extraordinary courage and struggle throughout her ordeal.

This is the definitive edition of the diary of Anne Frank.

Anne Frank was born on the 12 June 1929. She died while imprisoned at Bergen-Belsen, three months short of her sixteenth birthday. This seventieth anniversary, definitive edition of The Diary of a Young Girl is poignant, heartbreaking and a book that everyone should read.

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Tudo o que poderia ter sido...

Durante a leitura eu me tive que ir me lembrando que o que eu estava lendo era realmente um diário de uma garota escrito a 80 anos atrás, primeiro pela qualidade da escrita, mesmo sabendo que foi editado e revisão é inegável a habilidade escrita de Anne. Segundo por ser extremamente doloroso perceber que tudo aquilo aconteceu com as 8 pessoas escondidas no Anexo e com milhares de outras que tentaram fugir e se esconder e acabaram morrendo.

Anne mesclou em seu diário seu ponto de vista sobre os eventos históricos, a condições de vida no Anexo e especialmente seus sentimentos, emoções e esperanças. Consegui sentir todo o sofrimento por ter sua liberdade e direitos revogados, sua vontade de ter amigos, de poder sair do esconderijo, de ter as experiências normais que jovens de 14 anos querem viver.

Tudo isso só me fez pensar no que poderia ter sido, na vida que Anne poderia ter tido, como escritora e jornalista, como uma mulher a frente do seu tempo que desejava fazer a diferença no mundo, infelizmente tudo isso foi tirado dela pela ganância e intolerância que movem as guerras.

Relatos como os dela servem para nós lembrarmos de todo o sofrimento de crianças que perdem preciosos anos e até mesmo a própria vida para guerras sem sentido.