Rachel Cockerell

Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land

A groundbreaking family history for fans of Edmund de Waal and Philippe Sands

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Produktbeschreibung

For fans of Philippe Sands and Edmund de Waal, this genre-bending family memoir charts the forgotten moment when 10,000 Russian Jews fled to Galveston, Texas - led by Rachel Cockerell's great-grandfather.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Headline Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 650g
• ISBN-13: 9781035408917
• ISBN-10: 1035408910
• Artikelnr.: 69187235

Autorenporträt

Rachel Cockerell was born and raised in London, the sixth of seven children. She did her BA at the Courtauld Institute and her MA at City University. Melting Point is her first non-fiction book. Her research has taken her to Texas, Ohio, New York, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

Rezensionen

ingenious ... wonderfully vital and idiosyncratic, a model of how history writing can be made fresh ... an innovative and immediate account of a story that has world-historical significance. The Guardian