The Spectacle Salesman's Family
$28.38
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2007
Summary
How do you look to the future when all around you are living in the past? This stunningly written coming-of-age story explores life in a 1960s German Jewish family with all its contradictions, frustrations and occasionally, mesmerising glimpses of light.
Hamburg, 1967. Fania Schiefer is growing up, or trying to, in a dilapidated house full of holocaust survivors. Her mother and grandmother survived in hiding but lost siblings, nieces and nephews; their lives and identities are now sha…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844082216 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844082210 |
| Author: | Viola Roggenkamp |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2007 |
| Weight: | 420g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 130mm x 210mm |
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Critics Review
** ‘[A] powerful novel … It tells the story of a Jewish family in post-WWII Germany from the point of view of the generation born after the war; every scene is perfectly controlled, every character masterfully drawn - at once sharply delineated yet psychologically complex - DER SPEIGEL
** It’s an intimate, rambling story, rich in detail, character and tradition. The tremors and hidden anxieties of adolescence are keenly drawn. - GUARDIAN** ‘In her warm and touching debut novel, Viola Roggenkamp draws us into a family both suffocating and adorable… Roggenkamp’s characters are well drawn; the family dynamic amusingly conveyed. - INDEPENDENT** ‘Roggenkamp’s is a lovely narrative, strong in Jewish customs and the political background of the time - FTViola Roggenkamp
Viola Roggenkamp was the publisher of DIE ZEIT for three decades. This is her debut novel, based on her experiences of growing up half-Jewish in post-war Germany. She has lived in Asia and Israel for many years and now lives in Germany.
Roggenkamp has also written a non-fiction book TU MIR EINE LIEBE. MEINE MAMME (2002).
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