Rooms for Vanishing - A Novel

A prismatic, mind-bending family epic about the splintering of a Jewish family from Vienna--exploring the weight of exile and how grief twists our sense of the impossible. In has fractured the universe for the Altermans, a Jewish family from Vienna. Moving across decades, and across the world, the novel finds the Altermans alone in their separate futures, haunted by the loss of their loved ones, each certain that they are the sole survivor of their family. Sonja, the daughter, has gone in search of her husband, who has disappeared into London; Fania, the mother, is confronted with her doppelganger in the basement of a Montreal hotel; Moses, the son, is followed by the ghost of his best friend and eventually returns to Prague to make peace with the dead; and, finally, Arnold, the father, dares to believe that his long-lost daughter might be alive after he receives a message from an Englishwoman claiming to be Sonja. Through their stories, we come to see how--amid profound loss and the madness of grief--ghosts are made momentarily real. Spellbinding and profound,

Product details

• Authors: Stuart Nadler, Nadler Stuart
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.03.2025
• EAN: 9798217046331
• ISBN: 9798217046331
• No. of pages: 445
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 31 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Jewish, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Religious and spiritual fiction, Religious & Spiritual Fiction, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / Post-World War II