Gina Roitman

Broschiertes Buch

Tell Me a Story, Tell Me the Truth

Beschreibung

Haunted by the ghosts of the Holocaust, children of survivors struggle to find their own identity. This debut collection of stories travels the route of several children of Holocaust survivors from childhood to maturity. In a world trapped between two solitudes, immigrants and outsiders come of age in Canada at a time when everyone is looking for identity. Some stories are about seeking to find a voice stifled by Old World fears in a country that is looking to find its own distinctiveness; others struggle with rebellion, love found and lost, and the pain of being helpless in the face of irreparable circumstances, living in a world forever referencing the Holocaust and tallying the dead. Most reveal the disconnect best expressed in Don McLean's American Pie, -There we were all in one place, a generation lost in space.-

Autor

Gina Roitman, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, was born in Passau, Germany in 1948 and lived in the Pocking-Waldstadt Displaced Persons Camp before emigrating to Canada as a child. An award-winning writer and poet, she is currently completing a film entitled My Mother, the Nazi Midwife, and Me - a documentary about her discovery that the horrific stories she thought were told to terrify her as a child were actually true. She lives in Montreal.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Second Story Press
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 127mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 159g
• ISBN-13: 9781897187531
• ISBN-10: 189718753X
• Artikelnr.: 26276821