Losing The Dead - Couverture rigide

Appignanesi, Lisa

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0701168544 ISBN 13 : 9780701168544

Editeur : Chatto & Windus, 1999

Synopsis

Lisa Appignanesi was born Elsbieta Borenztejn in Poland. Unlike other holocaust survival memoirs, hers is the story of how the nucleus of a family survived outside the camps, beyond the ghetto and eventually made it to the new world, where Lisa's mother found that her years of masquerading as an Aryan stood her in good stead in anti-semitic post-war Catholic Quebec. As her mother's memory fails, Lisa finds herself trying to unravel the truth about family myths and memories, searching not only for signs of her mother's lost brother - a Jewish Schindler character, making money and saving Jews in Warsaw - but also for the truth about how her parents managed to survive, and for her own birth certificate. It's above all the compelling story of one woman's determination not to go under - a pretty, blonde Polish Jew with nerves of steel who spent so many years flirting with unreality that it was hard for her daughter to uncover the reality; and the story of a man, her father, who learned to make himself invisible and hide behind silent rage. What she unearths is a remarkable tale of terror, courage, deprivation, persecution, survival, and Jewish family life.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

As her mother slipped into the darkness of old age, Lisa Appignanesi began to realise how little she knew of the reality behind the tales she had heard since childhood. She had shunned her parents' stories of war-time Poland, but now she set out to find the truth. In her quest she flew to Warsaw - imagining and revisiting a past she never knew.

This is the moving story of the Jews who survived outside the camps, but it is also the author's own voyage of self-discovery - a family memoir of the rites of passage of emigration, childhood, and growing up an outsider in a closed community

Biographie de l'auteur

Lisa Appignanesi was born in Poland and grew up in France and Canada. A novelist and writer, she is former deputy director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, former President of English PEN and current chair of the Freud Museum. In 2013 Lisa Appignanesi was awarded the OBE.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chatto & Windus
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0701168544
• ISBN 13: 9780701168544
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible