Somewhere Else

'Jenni Daiches has astonishingly re-created a lost world... I wept and laughed and wished I had written it.'MIRIAM MARGOLYES'An urgent exploration of the fragility and beauty of our shared humanity, here and elsewhere.'HANNAH HOLTSCHNEIDER, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGHAbout the bookRosa Roshkin is five years old when her family are murdered in a pogrom and she is forced to leave behind everything she knows with only a suitcase of clothes and her father's violin.An epic generational novel about womanhood and Judaeo-Scottish experience across two World Wars, the creation of Israel and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Jenni Daiches's Somewhere Else explores today's most difficult and urgent questions, not least of which: how to find identity in displacement.

Product details

• Authors: Jenni Daiches, Daiches Jenni
• Publisher: Inpress Books
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.09.2024
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9781910895955
• ISBN: 978-1-910895-95-5
• Dimensions (packing): 13 x 20 x 2.5 cm
• Subjects: Berlin, Israel, World, New York, Vilnius, FICTION / Coming of Age, Sagas, FICTION / Sagas, Politics, Feminist, Fiction: special features, Historical fiction, Holocaust, FICTION / Political, Nairobi, Pogrom, FICTION / Religious, 20th Century, Poland, Identity, Bergen-Belsen, Narrative theme: Social issues, Bialystok, WW1, Narrative theme: Coming of age, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Destiny, Narrative theme: Politics, WW2, Archaeology, Refugee, Socialism, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Menorah, Epic, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Central Europe, Jewish, Western Europe, Displacement, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Religious and spiritual fiction, Religious & Spiritual Fiction, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, FICTION / Muslim, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Narrative theme: Diversity, equality, inclusion, Narrative theme: Journeys and voyages, FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / General, FICTION / Diversity & Multicultural, Suffrage, Generational Trauma, Six-Day War