A novel that tells the story of a Jewish family in World War II and
reaches deep into Jewish history. Born in Brittany on the threshold
of World War II, novelist Michele Sarde had long been silent about
her origins. After her mother, Jenny, finally shared their family
history, Sarde decided to reconstruct Jenny's journey, including
her exile from Salonica, move to Paris in 1921, and assimilation in
France. The Nazi occupation then forced her and her family to hide
and conceal their Jewish identity, and in this retelling, Sarde
shows how Jenny fights with everything she has to survive the
Holocaust and protect her daughter. Returning from Silence is a
powerful saga that reaches deep into Jewish history, opening with
the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 and their settlement
in a more tolerant Ottoman Empire. Sephardi culture and language
flourished in Salonica for four centuries, but with the fall of the
Ottoman Empire in the 1920s, and the sense of troubling times to
come, Jenny's family felt impelled to leave their much-loved city
and rebuild their lives in France. Their years in France led to
change that none could have fully expected, and then, the
Holocaust. The trauma lasts well into the post-war period,
silencing both mother and daughter in unanticipated ways. Through
this family history, Sarde sensitively raises questions about
identity, migration, and assimilation while weaving fiction
together with history, research, and testimony to bring the
characters' stories to life.
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