Displaced Persons - A Novel

Zusatztext "An epic tale..." Informationen zum Autor Ghita Schwarz is a civil rights lawyer specializing in immigrants’ rights. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Displaced Persons was a finalist for the Foundation for Jewish Culture’s Goldberg Prize for Outstanding Fiction. Klappentext In May 1945, Pavel Mandl, a Polish Jew recently liberated from a concentration camp, finds himself among similarly displaced persons gathered in the Allied occupation zones of a defeated Germany. Possessing little besides a map, a few tins of food, and a talent for black-market trading, he must scrape together a new life in a chaotic community of refugees, civilians, and soldiers. With fellow refugees Fela, a young widow, and Chaim, a resourceful teenager with impressive smuggling skills, Pavel establishes a makeshift family, as together they face an uncertain future. Eventually the trio immigrates to the United States, where they grapple with past traumas that arise again in the everyday moments of lives no longer dominated by the need to endure, fight, hide, or escape. Ghita Schwarz’s Displaced Persons is an astonishing novel of grief, anger, and survival that examines the landscape of liberation and reveals the interior despairs and joys of immigrants shaped by war and trauma. Zusammenfassung “This is an amazing novel. The writing is piercing and clear, and the humanity of the author and her characters will inhabit my thoughts for years to come.” —Anne Roiphe, National Book Award-winning author of Fruitful   An astonishing tale of grief and anger, memory and survival, Displaced Persons marks the arrival of a supremely gifted new literary talent, Ghita Schwarz. Schwarz’s powerful story of a group of Holocaust survivors—“displaced persons”—struggling to remake their lives and cope with the stigma of their pasts in the wake of the monumental Nazi horror is beautiful, tragic, moving, and unforgettable, chronicling the lives of ordinary people who have suffered under extraordinary circumstances. ...

Product details

• Authors: Ghita Schwarz
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2011
• EAN: 9780061881770
• ISBN: 978-0-06-188177-0
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 21 mm
• Series: HarperPerennial; P.S.
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historical fiction, Second World War fiction, Germany, Short Stories, Narrative theme: Politics, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Anthologies: general, Religious and spiritual fiction, Relating to religious groups, Relating to Jewish people and groups, FICTION: General, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: Historical / World War II, FICTION: Political, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: European / German, FICTION: World Literature / American / 21st Century, FICTION: World Literature / American / 20th Century, FICTION: Historical / 20th Century / Post-World War II