How to Be a Refugee - The gripping true story of how one family hid their Jewish origins

A powerfully moving family memoir of loss, exile and self-concealment in Nazi Germany.

About the author

Simon May was born in London, the son of a violinist and a brush manufacturer. Visiting professor of philosophy at King’s College London, his books include Love: A New Understanding of an Ancient Emotion; Love: A History; Nietzsche’s Ethics and his War on ‘Morality’; The Power of Cute; and Thinking Aloud, a collection of his own aphorisms. His work has been translated into ten languages and regularly features in major newspapers worldwide. For many years he has intended to move ‘back’ to Berlin, but has yet to do so.

Summary

A powerfully moving family memoir of loss, exile and self-concealment in Nazi Germany.

Foreword

A powerfully moving family memoir of loss, exile and self-concealment in Nazi Germany.

Additional text

Gripping . . . May is at his best when he writes about his own experience of loss and displacement . . . a beautifully told story of a second-generation refugee coming to terms with his family's German past.

Product details

• Authors: Simon May, May Simon
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781529042818
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-4281-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 242 mm x 33 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Holocaust, Germany, Jewish Studies, Second World War, The Holocaust, Jewish, Autobiography: religious & spiritual, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Europe / Germany, Military / World War II