Kapo, by Aleksandar Tišma. a review by Livi Michael

Aleksandar Tišma. Kapo, New York Review Books, (2021) £11.99 The term ‘Kapo’, as David Rieff explains in his illuminating afterword to this novel, refers to a prisoner in the concentration camps who has been selected by the Nazis to work for them. Lamian, the protagonist of this novel, has served as a kapo in Auschwitz.Continue reading “Kapo, by Aleksandar Tišma. a review by Livi Michael”