Fall Author:Marga Minco A short, unusual work of alienation and despair...Frieda Borgstein, about to celebrate her birthday in a Jewish retirement home, is a survivor of Nazi persecution who escaped death only by sheer luck and circumstance. (Her family did not.) Plagued by guilt and loneliness, Frieda relives her past through vivid memories. Minco's journalistic writi... more »ng style is clear, concise, and to the poignant point. Recommended."" - Booklist. ""Minco periodically interrupts Frieda's story to set up the inevitable sequence of events that will kill Frieda on the eve of her 85th birthday. The aftermath of this tragedy prompts a more subtle analysis of disaster itself: What is a trap laid for destruction, the author asks, and what is simply a fall occasioned by an indifferent force of destiny? Minco's unadorned and lean style points up the precise determination of her plot."" - Publishers Weekly.« less