Hadley Freeman

Broschiertes Buch

House of Glass

The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family

Beschreibung

"Hadley Freeman knew her grandmother Sara had lived in France just as Hitler started to gain power in Europe, but rarely did anyone in her family talk about it--until long after her grandmother's death, she found a shoebox tucked in a closet. In it was a photograph of her grandmother with a mysterious stranger; a cryptic telegram from the Red Cross; and a drawing signed by Picasso. This discovery sent Freeman on a decade-long journey, as she tried to uncover the significance of these keepsakes. Her search took her from the Picasso archives in Paris to a secret room in a farmhouse in the Auvergne, from Long Island to Auschwitz. Here, Freeman pieces together the puzzle of her family's past"--

Autor

Hadley Freeman is a staff writer for The Sunday Times in the UK. She was born in New York and lives in London. Her books include Life Moves Pretty Fast and the bestselling House of Glass, and her work has appeared in  Vogue US and UK, New York magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, and many other publications.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 136mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 312g
• ISBN-13: 9781501199202
• ISBN-10: 150119920X
• Artikelnr.: 61331663

Rezensionen

'This is a startlingly original book, remarkable and gripping' Edmund de Waal

'A magnificently vivid re-creation of her Jewish family's experience of twentieth-century Europe, Hadley Freeman's book is also an acute examination of the roots, tropes, and persistence of anti-Semitism, which makes it an urgently necessary book for us to read right now' Salman Rushdie

'This is an utterly engrossing book: one that manages to be an intimate family history and a meticulously researched account of a shocking period of world history at the same time. It may be an overused term of approbation, but it truly is unputdownable' Nigella

Lawson

'House of Glass is extraordinary. It reads like a mystery and a memoir and a gripping history of the last century ... Freeman doesn't hide from the grey spaces people inhabit during wartime, or shy away from drawing the terrifying parallels to today's iterations of those ancient hatreds. It is a brave and wonderful book' Nathan Englander

'This deeply moving book is so beautifully written - like hearing a fascinating conversation about the past, then being warmly welcomed into the very heart of it. This is a stunning memoir, and a thrilling detective story. I completely lost myself in its many worlds' Marina Hyde

'It glitters like a diamond - revealing not only the extraordinary story of the Glass family, but the many facets of twentieth-century Jewish experience. Written with lightness and warmth, this book is both timely and timeless' Helen Lewis

'This is a startlingly original book, remarkable and gripping' Edmund de Waal

'A magnificently vivid re-creation of her Jewish family's experience of twentieth-century Europe, Hadley Freeman's book is also an acute examination of the roots, tropes, and persistence of anti-Semitism, which makes it an urgently necessary book for us to read right now' Salman Rushdie

'This is an utterly engrossing book: one that manages to be an intimate family history and a meticulously researched account of a shocking period of world history at the same time. It may be an overused term of approbation, but it truly is unputdownable' Nigella Lawson

'House of Glass is extraordinary. It reads like a mystery and a memoir and a gripping

history of the last century ... Freeman doesn't hide from the grey spaces people inhabit during wartime, or shy away from drawing the terrifying parallels to today's iterations of those ancient hatreds. It is a brave and wonderful book' Nathan Englander

'This deeply moving book is so beautifully written - like hearing a fascinating conversation about the past, then being warmly welcomed into the very heart of it. This is a stunning memoir, and a thrilling detective story. I completely lost myself in its many worlds' Marina Hyde

'It glitters like a diamond - revealing not only the extraordinary story of the Glass family, but the many facets of twentieth-century Jewish experience. Written with lightness and warmth, this book is both timely and timeless' Helen Lewis