The listener
| Titel: | The listener : in the shadow of the Holocaust / Irene Oore |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press, [2019] |
| Umfang: | IX, 142 Seiten : Karten |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
The Regina collection ; 13 |
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| ISBN: | 9780889776531 |
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| Bemerkung: | Includes glossary and dramatis personae |
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| Zusammenfassung: |
"A reflection on how trauma is passed from generation to generation. In The Listener, a daughter receives a troubling gift: her mother's stories of surviving World War II in Poland. Irene Oore's Jewish mother married a Gentile Polish officer, which allowed her to escape the death camps. But constantly on the verge of starvation, she lived a harrowing and peripatetic existence as she struggled to keep her own mother and sister alive. Throughout the memoir, Oore reveals a certain ambivalence towards the gift bestowed upon her. The stories of fear, love, and constant hunger traumatised her as a child. Now she shares these same stories with her own children, to keep the history alive. Irene Oore is the co-author of Marie-Claire Blais: An Annotated Bibliography. Born in Łód'z, Poland, she immigrated to Israel as a child and is now a professor of French at Dalhousie University in Halifax."-- |
