<DIV><P>Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Ruth Kl&#252;ger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence undermined and destroyed. By age eleven she had been deported, along with her mother to Theresienstadt, the first in a series of concentration camps which would become the setting for her shattered childhood. Kl&#252;ger's story of her years in the camps and her struggle to establish a viable life after the war has emerged as one of the most powerful accounts of the Holocaust, in a class with the work of Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel&mdash;yet stridently different. </P> <P>A coming-of-age story that constantly delves into the blunt, unsentimental observations of childhood, <I>Still Alive</I> rejects all easy assumptions about history. Kluger's memoir was a sensation when published in the original German, earning bestseller status and critical acclaim. The book's publication in a half-dozen other languages has garnered several awards for Kl&#252;ger, among them the 1998 Prix de la Shoah. For its English edition, Kl&#252;ger has translated and revised her own work, adding references and reflecting on the passage of time, in particular on the recent death of her mother. </P> <P><I>Still Alive</I> offers a fierce and bittersweet addition to the record of the Holocaust&mdash;the story of a woman who not only survived but fully reclaimed her life. It is a memoir of the pursuit of selfhood against all odds, a coming-of-age story in which the protagonist must learn never to rely on comforting assumptions, and always to seek her own truth. </P> <P><B>Marketing Plans for <I>Still Alive</I>:</B><BR> Extensive galley distribution to booksellers and reviewers<BR> Major broadcast media push<BR> Selected high-profile author events </P> <P><B>Ruth Kl&#252;ger </B>is professor emerita of German at UC Irvine. <I>Weiter leben: eine jugend, </I>published in German in 1992, has been translated into Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, Czech, and Japanese. Kl&#252;ger resides in Irvine, California. Marketing Plans: Extensive galley distribution to booksellers and reviewers Major broadcast media push Selected high-profile author events</P></DIV>