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portada In the Garden of Memory
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Language
English
Pages
432
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.0 cm
ISBN13
9781953943705

In the Garden of Memory

Olczak-Ronikier, Joanna; Lloyd-Jones, Antonia (Author) · Rivertowns Books · Paperback

In the Garden of Memory - Olczak-Ronikier, Joanna; Lloyd-Jones, Antonia

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Synopsis "In the Garden of Memory"

Winner of the Nike Prize, Poland's most prestigious literary awardJoanna Olczak-Ronikier is one of Poland's most admired dramatists, screenwriters, and authors. In the Garden of Memory, her most acclaimed work, traces the lives of four generations of her own family-Polish Jews who were members of one of the country's most illustrious clans, noted for its achievements in business, politics, and culture-as they lived, struggled, and (mostly) survived through the turbulent twentieth century. Rich with tales of bravery as well as poignant, sometimes comic anecdotes of everyday life, the book follows the family members as they scattered around the world to European spas, tsarist prisons, Soviet war camps, and the Royal Air Force. Tracing their roots to a renowned Austrian rabbi, the family members included an array of amazing characters. One became an industrial magnate who founded the Citroën automobile company in France; another was a Communist revolutionary who ended up being arrested, tortured, and executed by Stalin's police. One worked as an undercover agent, another as a zoologist in France. One became a notable Polish publisher, another a leading Freudian psychiatrist. Inevitably, the tragic history of the Second World War and its catastrophic impact on European Jews looms darkly over the narrative, yet remarkably enough only two members of the clan were killed in the Holocaust. Today the survivors have continued the family journey around the world, including in the United States. Beautifully translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, In the Garden of Memory is ultimately the uplifting account of a family that never gave up hope and never gave in.

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