Displaced Persons
β Scribed by Ghita Schwarz
- Publisher
- HarperCollins;William Morrow
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 186 KB
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
"This is an amazing novel. The writing is piercing and clear, and the humanity of the author and her characters will inhabit my thoughts for years to come."
--Anne Roiphe, National Book Award-winning author of Fruitful
An astonishing tale of grief and anger, memory and survival, Displaced Persons marks the arrival of a supremely gifted new literary talent, Ghita Schwarz. Schwarz's powerful story of a group of Holocaust survivors--"displaced persons"--struggling to remake their lives and cope with the stigma of their pasts in the wake of the monumental Nazi horror is beautiful, tragic, moving, and unforgettable, chronicling the lives of ordinary people who have suffered under extraordinary circumstances.
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