Testament
Akce
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vyprodáno |
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Cena v akci:
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159,00 Kč |
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Internetová cena:
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383,00 Kč |
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Běžná cena:
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479,00 Kč |
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Zboží není skladem
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| Autor: |
Kim Sherwood
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| Jazyk: |
anglicky |
| Vazba: |
měkká |
| Počet stran: |
400 |
| Formát: |
15,3 x 23,4 cm |
| ISBN/EAN: |
9781786488664 |
| Nakladatel: |
riverrun |
| Rok vydání: |
2018 |
| Edice: |
Současná beletrie
/ Beletrie
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A prize-winning novel following a young woman uncovering the truth about her family's past in the Hungarian Holocaust.
'What a writer. I was totally captivated. Moving and ultimately uplifting' HEATHER MORRIS, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz
'I am absorbed by the delicacy, even the beauty, with which she writes of the trauma of history' AMIT CHAUDHURI
WINNER OF THE BATH NOVEL AWARD
Eva finds the letter in the Blue Room. She spent the happier days of her childhood here, in her grandfather's painting studio. After his death, she is responsible for his legacy - a legacy threatened by the letter. It is from the Jewish Museum in Berlin.
They have found the testimony he gave after surviving the death march across Serbia and Hungary, and they want to exhibit it. But the famous Joseph Silk - who came to England as a refugee - remade himself long ago.
As Eva unravels what happened to him, and to the woman he loved, she is confronted by the lies that have haunted her family. They will change her grandfather's identity; but they could also turn the tide of history. Their story is in her hands.
Kim Sherwood's extraordinary first novel is a powerful statement of intent. Beautifully written, moving and hopeful, it crosses the tidemark where the third generation meets the first, finding a new language to express love, loss and our place within history.
Biographical Notes
Kim Sherwood was born in Camden in 1989 and lives in Bath. She studied Creative Writing at UEA, is now Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England, and teaches prisoners. Her pieces have appeared in Mslexia, Lighthouse, and Going Down Swinging. Kim began researching and writing Testament, her first novel, after her grandfather, the actor George Baker, passed away and her grandmother began to talk about her experiences as a Holocaust Survivor for the first time. It won the 2016 Bath Novel Award.
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