THE SHAWL

Two well-known—and particularly fine—stories by Ozick, now brought together in a single volume: "The Shawl" (a "stark, chillingly deliberate story of mother-child annihilation in a Nazi death camp": Kirkus) and "Rosa" ("a breathtaking story of a Holocaust survivor's justifiably mad life in vulgar yet touching Miami Beach": Kirkus). Both were first-prize winners in O. Henry Prize Stories collections (1981 and 1984), and both also appeared in Best American Short Stories.