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In this second book of her trilogy, Children of the Holocaust, Where She Came From and The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma, Helen Epstein reconstructs the lives of three generations of Central-European women: her great-grandmother Theresa; her grandmother Pepi and her mother Franci - all dressmakers. As in Children of the Holocaust, she creates a hybrid narrative that braids techniques of journalism, biography, and memoir, and provides a new perspective on the social and cultural history of Jewish women of the 19th and 20th centuries. "With this family history, Epstein adds a vivid and telling chapter to the reconstruction of Jewish women's history, one life at a time. The settings range from the Bohemian town of Brtnice; to the Belle Epoque Vienna of assimilated Jews; to newly independent and cosmopolitan Prague in the 1920s, where Pepi ran a fashion salon; to Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and finally New York. It is a compelling account, one that any woman trying to recover her history will value." - Kirkus Reviews "In Epstein's expert and sensitive hands, truth becomes not only stranger than fiction, but more magnetic, wise and powerful." - Gloria Steinem "Written with her superb talent for storytelling, her tale is profoundly human." - Elie Wiesel
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Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search For Her Mother's History, Helen Epstein
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- Publicado en
- 2021
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- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Helen Epstein
- Editorial
- Lost Research
- Publicado en
- 2021
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 352
- ISBN13
- 9798985192513
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- No ficción, Tema histórico, Historia, Historias reales, Biografías, Literatura checa, Autobiografías y memorias, Historia militar, Literatura americana, Segunda Guerra Mundial, Regalos para mujeres, Regalos para abuela, Judíos, Holocausto, Literatura Judía, Biografías de mujeres, Sagas, Investigación en el pasado
- Primera publicación
- 1998
- Título original
- Where She Came From
- Calificación
- 4 de 5
- Descripción
- In this second book of her trilogy, Children of the Holocaust, Where She Came From and The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma, Helen Epstein reconstructs the lives of three generations of Central-European women: her great-grandmother Theresa; her grandmother Pepi and her mother Franci - all dressmakers. As in Children of the Holocaust, she creates a hybrid narrative that braids techniques of journalism, biography, and memoir, and provides a new perspective on the social and cultural history of Jewish women of the 19th and 20th centuries. "With this family history, Epstein adds a vivid and telling chapter to the reconstruction of Jewish women's history, one life at a time. The settings range from the Bohemian town of Brtnice; to the Belle Epoque Vienna of assimilated Jews; to newly independent and cosmopolitan Prague in the 1920s, where Pepi ran a fashion salon; to Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and finally New York. It is a compelling account, one that any woman trying to recover her history will value." - Kirkus Reviews "In Epstein's expert and sensitive hands, truth becomes not only stranger than fiction, but more magnetic, wise and powerful." - Gloria Steinem "Written with her superb talent for storytelling, her tale is profoundly human." - Elie Wiesel