| Summary |
"For readers of W. G. Sebald and Daniel Mendelsohn, by a writer whose storytelling is 'devastatingly agile' (New York Times Book Review). Born in Czechoslovakia, Mark Slouka's parents survived the Nazis only to be forced to then escape the Communist purges after the war. Smuggled out of their own country, the newlyweds joined a tide of refugees moving from Innsbruck to Sydney to New York, dragging with them a history of blood and betrayal that their son would be born into. From World War I to the present, Slouka pieces together a remarkable story of refugees and war, displacement and denial, admitting into evidence memories, dreams, stories, the lies we inherit and the lies we tell -- in an attempt to reach his mother, the figure at the center of the labyrinth. Her story -- the revelation of her life-long burden and the forty-year love affair that might have saved her -- shows the way out of the maze" -- Provided by publisher. |
| System details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Format: Adobe EPUB eBook. |
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Format: Kindle Book. |
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Format: OverDrive Read. |
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Requires Adobe Digital Editions or Amazon Kindle. |
| Other edition |
Original 9780393292305 |
| Subject |
Slouka, Mark -- Family.
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Slouka, Mark -- Childhood and youth.
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Czech Americans -- Biography.
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Authors, American -- Biography.
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Mothers and sons -- New York (State) -- Biography.
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Family secrets -- New York (State)
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New York (State) -- Biography.
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| Genre |
Electronic books.
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| Other corporate author |
OverDrive, Inc.
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| ISBN |
9780393292312
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| STANDARD # |
2674401 OverDrive |
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