The ghetto within
Amigorena, Santiago H.2022
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1928. Vicente Rosenberg is one of countless European émigrés making a new life for themselves in Argentina. It's here, along the bustling avenues of Buenos Aires, that he'll meet and marry Rosita, whose ties to his native Poland are more ancestral than extant. They will have three children and pursue a quiet, comfortable domestic life. Vicente will start a profitable business and, on occasion, look back. Still, despite success, he will ache for his mother, Gustawa, who stayed behind in Warsaw with his siblings. For years, she writes him several times a month. Yet, as rumours mount from abroad, Vicente is given pause. The war in Europe feels so remote. Over time, his mother's letters stop altogether. Racked with guilt and anxiety over the fate of his mother and family, he lapses into a deep despair and longstanding silence. Amigorena employs language to reclaim his 'voice' from the oblivion of familial trauma.
Main title:
The ghetto within / Santiago Amigorena ; translated from the French by Frank Wynne.
Author:
Amigorena, Santiago H., authorWynne, Frank, translator
Imprint:
London : HarperVia, 2022.
Collation:
176 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9780063018334 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
843.92
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
2538712
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