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Edith Eger Boxed Set: The Choice, The Gift
Now collected in a giftable boxed set, two companion works by Holocaust survivor and eminent psychologist Edith Eger—her New York Times bestselling memoir The Choice , and her inspirational guide The Gift .
“I’ll be forever changed by Edith Eger’s story.” —Oprah Winfrey
Edith Eger’s classic nonfiction works, wonderful gifts on their own, are now available in a collectible set. Her profound messages help us analyze our own thoughts and behaviors, move on from past hardships, and find joy in everyday life. Read in tandem, these works will inspire and guide readers toward a richer, more fulfilling life of love, understanding, and forgiveness.
In the New York Times bestselling The Choice , Eger tells the story of her training as a ballerina and Olympic gymnast before being sent to Auschwitz at the age of sixteen. After decades struggling with flashbacks and survivor’s guilt, determined to stay silent and hide from the past, she returned to Auschwitz thirty-five years after the war ended, and began at last to truly heal. She finally understood how to forgive the one person she’d been unable to forgive—herself.
Edie interweaves her remarkable personal journey with the moving stories of patients she has helped. She explores how we can be imprisoned in our own minds and how to find the key to freedom. The Choice is a life-changing book that has already provided hope and comfort to hundreds of thousands of readers.
In The Gift , Eger explains why the most persistent imprisonment she experienced was not in the prison the Nazis put her in, but the one she created for herself—the prison within her own mind. The Gift, a prescriptive complement to The Choice , helps readers see a path forward in their own lives, and explains how to attain the peace Eger eventually found for herself.
Accompanied by stories from her own life and the lives of her patients, Eger’s empowering lessons help readers see how their darkest moments can be their greatest teachers. We all face suffering—sadness, loss, despair, fear, anxiety, failure. And we all have a to give in and give up in the face of trauma and hardship, or to live every moment as a gift.
The new edition of The Gift includes two new chapters on dealing with the emotional consequences of Covid, and how to bring the joy of food and family into your life. This chapter, jointly written with her daughter, Dr. Marianne Engle, is accompanied by seventeen of their favorite recipes.
“I’ll be forever changed by Edith Eger’s story.” —Oprah Winfrey
Edith Eger’s classic nonfiction works, wonderful gifts on their own, are now available in a collectible set. Her profound messages help us analyze our own thoughts and behaviors, move on from past hardships, and find joy in everyday life. Read in tandem, these works will inspire and guide readers toward a richer, more fulfilling life of love, understanding, and forgiveness.
In the New York Times bestselling The Choice , Eger tells the story of her training as a ballerina and Olympic gymnast before being sent to Auschwitz at the age of sixteen. After decades struggling with flashbacks and survivor’s guilt, determined to stay silent and hide from the past, she returned to Auschwitz thirty-five years after the war ended, and began at last to truly heal. She finally understood how to forgive the one person she’d been unable to forgive—herself.
Edie interweaves her remarkable personal journey with the moving stories of patients she has helped. She explores how we can be imprisoned in our own minds and how to find the key to freedom. The Choice is a life-changing book that has already provided hope and comfort to hundreds of thousands of readers.
In The Gift , Eger explains why the most persistent imprisonment she experienced was not in the prison the Nazis put her in, but the one she created for herself—the prison within her own mind. The Gift, a prescriptive complement to The Choice , helps readers see a path forward in their own lives, and explains how to attain the peace Eger eventually found for herself.
Accompanied by stories from her own life and the lives of her patients, Eger’s empowering lessons help readers see how their darkest moments can be their greatest teachers. We all face suffering—sadness, loss, despair, fear, anxiety, failure. And we all have a to give in and give up in the face of trauma and hardship, or to live every moment as a gift.
The new edition of The Gift includes two new chapters on dealing with the emotional consequences of Covid, and how to bring the joy of food and family into your life. This chapter, jointly written with her daughter, Dr. Marianne Engle, is accompanied by seventeen of their favorite recipes.
560 pages, Hardcover
Published October 17, 2023
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May 16, 2025
Actually I wanted to read the book "The Ballerina of Auschwitz", but I already had this one in my possession.
More than in the above mentioned book, "the choice" is, besides Edith's survival in Auschwitz, also about her further, long and rich life afterwards.
Sometimes I found it difficult to read those stories next to each other.
The horrible story about Auschwitz, the transports of ammunition trains on which prisoners of Auschwitz were placed who served as a living shield and to protect the ammunition, and the first difficult years in the US, alternated with stories about patients that Edith treated after she graduated as a psychologist.
But all in all this remains a beautiful book that shows that no matter what darkness you are in, there is always hope.
That you can always choose to keep seeing the light.
Not to repay evil with evil.
The darkness that Edith overcame in Auschwitz, but also her patients that she helped to deal with their own darkness.
I have a lot of respect for this woman, who, now in her 90s, still gives lectures and tells her translation
More than in the above mentioned book, "the choice" is, besides Edith's survival in Auschwitz, also about her further, long and rich life afterwards.
Sometimes I found it difficult to read those stories next to each other.
The horrible story about Auschwitz, the transports of ammunition trains on which prisoners of Auschwitz were placed who served as a living shield and to protect the ammunition, and the first difficult years in the US, alternated with stories about patients that Edith treated after she graduated as a psychologist.
But all in all this remains a beautiful book that shows that no matter what darkness you are in, there is always hope.
That you can always choose to keep seeing the light.
Not to repay evil with evil.
The darkness that Edith overcame in Auschwitz, but also her patients that she helped to deal with their own darkness.
I have a lot of respect for this woman, who, now in her 90s, still gives lectures and tells her translation
December 16, 2025
Bizar verhaal over een jonge vrouw in Auschwitz. Beide boeken heb ik met enorm veel interesse gelezen. Het verhaal wat deze vrouw heeft meegemaakt is echt gruwelijk. Echter vind ik het zo mooi om te zien hoe ze altijd hoop is blijven houden. Ook vind ik het mooi dat ze als psycholoog ook durft toe te geven dat ze ook nog steeds moeite heeft met haar eigen trauma’s. Het lijkt eigenlijk zien dat je nooit bent uitgeleerd en ik vind dat een heel waardevol inzicht. Er staan ook vele waardevolle psychologische lessen in die je laten nadenken. Enorm inspirerend.
September 2, 2023
They only have the box set on goodreads. I read the first book "The Choice" only. What a crazy story of resilience. She is inspiring and I definitely desire to be more like her in the way I approach struggles.
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