I Want You to Know We're Still Here
A Post-Holocaust Memoir
(Sprache: Englisch)
Esther Safran Foer grew up in a home where the past was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust loomed in the backdrop of daily life. The result was a childhood...
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Esther Safran Foer grew up in a home where the past was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust loomed in the backdrop of daily life. The result was a childhood marked by painful silences and continued tragedy. Even as she built a successful career, married, and raised three children, Esther always felt herself searching.
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NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS FINALIST Part personal quest, part testament, and all thoughtfully, compassionately written. The Washington Post
Esther Safran Foer is a force of nature: a leader of the Jewish people, the matriarch of America s leading literary family, an eloquent defender of the proposition that memory matters. And now, a riveting memoirist. Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR Esther Safran Foer grew up in a home where the past was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust loomed in the backdrop of daily life, felt but never discussed. The result was a childhood marked by painful silences and continued tragedy. Even as she built a successful career, married, and raised three children, Esther always felt herself searching.
So when Esther s mother casually mentions an astonishing revelation that her father had a previous wife and daughter, both killed in the Holocaust Esther resolves to find out who they were, and how her father survived. Armed with only a black-and-white photo and a hand-drawn map, she travels to Ukraine, determined to find the shtetl where her father hid during the war. What she finds reshapes her identity and gives her the opportunity to finally mourn.
I Want You to Know We re Still Here is the poignant and deeply moving story not only of Esther s journey but of four generations living in the shadow of the Holocaust. They are four generations of survivors, storytellers, and memory keepers, determined not just to keep the past alive but to imbue the present with life and more life.
Autoren-Porträt von Esther Safran Foer
Esther Safran Foer was the CEO of Sixth & I, a center for arts, ideas, and religion. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, Bert. They are the parents of Franklin, Jonathan, and Joshua, and the grandparents of six.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Esther Safran Foer
- 1900, 240 Seiten, Maße: 13,9 x 20,7 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Random House
- ISBN-10: 0593236696
- ISBN-13: 9780593236697
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.1900
Sprache:
Englisch
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