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So sind wir
“That's How We Are” (title translated by AI)
Gila Lustiger (born 1963)
English editions
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A paperweight, newspapers, a doll: prompted by personal objects, the narrator follows the traces of her family's memories. They are Central European Jews, victims of history, and people who keep silent despite their brilliant memories. At the centre is her father, a writer who was sent to a concentration camp as a teenager and survived the Holocaust, and what his experience does to a family that 'gently keeps silent about the past'. In many episodes, where tragedy and comedy are closely intertwined, the history of European Jewry unfolds as well.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 259 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Historical (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2005 by Berlin Verlag
- Author's age
- 42 when first published
- ISBN
9783827005571 (original)
- More
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