The Suitcase - Six Attempts to Cross a Border

Now she finds herself with the dilemma of two competing urges: wanting to know what's in the suitcase, and wanting not to know. So begins this captivating exploration of history, memory and geography, as Frances Stonor Saunders unpicks her father's and his family's past.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Frances Stonor Saunders is a writer, broadcaster and documentary-maker. She writes for the London Review of Books and Guardian, and is the former Arts Editor of the New Statesman. Her first book, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, has been translated into twenty languages, and was awarded the Royal Historical Society's William Gladstone Memorial Prize. She is also the author of Hawkwood and The Woman Who Shot Mussolini. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in London.

Zusammenfassung

Now she finds herself with the dilemma of two competing urges: wanting to know what's in the suitcase, and wanting not to know. So begins this captivating exploration of history, memory and geography, as Frances Stonor Saunders unpicks her father's and his family's past.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Frances Stonor Saunders, Frances Stonor Saunders
• Verlag: Vintage UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 02.06.2022
• EAN: 9781784707705
• ISBN: 978-1-78470-770-5
• Seiten: 240
• Abmessung: 128 mm x 196 mm x 15 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Sachbuch; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Biographien, Autobiographien; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Egypt, Poland, Romania, Turkey, Republic of South Africa, Local interest, family history & nostalgia, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Migration, immigration and emigration, Local and family history, nostalgia, Coping with Alzheimer’s and dementia, Alzheimer's & dementia, Coping with / advice about Alzheimer’s and dementia