Book Details
Format
Hardcover
Pages
336
Language
English
Published
Nov 6, 2014
Publisher
Granta
ISBN-10
1847087787
ISBN-13
9781847087782
Description
On the 2nd of August 1947 a young man gets off a train in a small Swedish town. He has survived the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz, and the harrowing slave camps and transports during the final months of Nazi Germany. Now he has to learn to live with his memories. In this intelligent and deeply moving book, Goran Rosenberg returns to his own childhood in order to tell his father's story. It is also the story of the chasm that soon opens between the world of the child, suffused with the optimism, progress and collective oblivion of post-war Sweden, and the world of the father, haunted by the long shadows of the past.
Genres
Children’s
Action & Adventure
Horror