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Losing the Dead
Lisa Appignanesi
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Description for Losing the Dead
Paperback. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGH; BGL; DSBH; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 197 x 17. Weight in Grams: 218.
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
VMC
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844089291
SKU
V9781844089291
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About Lisa Appignanesi
Lisa Appignanesi was born in Poland and grew up in France and Canada. A prize-winning writer and novelist, she was chair of the Freud Museum from 2008-2014, chair of the Royal Society of Literature from 2016-2021 and is a former president of English PEN. She was awarded an OBE for services to literature in 2013. Her non-fiction includes Freud's Women ... Read more
Reviews for Losing the Dead
Distinguished . . . Appignanesi has a sharp eye for the details of everyday life in the Warsaw ghetto . . . Read Losing the Dead and you begin to appreciate what life must have been like for hundreds of thousands of European Jews during the long nightmare of the Third Reich
The Times
This book crosses genre, ... Read more
The Times
This book crosses genre, ... Read more