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'Three Books' by Tamara Tracz is a very special
three-hardback-volume slipcased book. It is, first and foremost, a
story that follows several generations of a family as their lives
unfold in various cities, countries and continents during the
course of the twentieth century. It is a story with a cast of
characters, some strong, some exceptional, some familiar, some
curious. It is a story of births and deaths, of lives led and of
the forces that shape them. The family in'Three Books' is a Jewish
Family, and their story is one of emigration and persecution that
was, almost inescapably, profoundly affected by the Holocaust. It
is a story that is shared with the stories of many countless
thousands of other families - of taking flight from the Nazi
regime, of German forces arriving in towns and villages and
searching out the Jewish inhabitants, of summary executions and
mass graves. It is a story of branches of the family destroyed, and
of the survival of others. It is as distressing, disillusioning and
disheartening a story as one might fear to read of the plight of
the Jews last century. But'Three Books' is not written in the usual
form of family biography, and is not only the story of this
family's history. It is also a story about stories, about the
passing on of information between generations, and between
different branches of a family over time. It is a story about the
impossibility of ever being able to tell a complete or truly
objective family history. It is a story of fragments and
recollections, of oral histories and letters sent, of trying to
piece things together and to fill in gaps. Perhaps just as
importantly, it acknowledges the absence of information, or the
chances of ever being able to know certain things that transpired,
and how this can shape the directions of subsequent generations.
The dark, gaping holes of knowledge were often deliberately left
unspoken by those who were once in a position to reveal the
details. 'Three Books'is also partly autobiography, as it is
Tracz's own family that is the subject of the story. Indeed, the
reader can glean much about the author's life as Tracz consciously
lets us in to her immediate family circle, to their happy family
life today. With a particular focus on her young children, Riva and
Constantin, Tracz gently shares her inner fears and anxieties about
being a mother, of the thought of losing her children. These are
the thoughts of almost any mother, especially any mother who has
heard the stories of mothers, daughters and sisters in her own
family's past who experienced such separations and losses through
oppression and genocide. It is, in many ways, a story of women, of
female intergenerational relations, experiences, actions, thoughts
and emotions. It is a story about living and loving, of family and
the meaning of the things that happen to them, the things that
remain and that the things that slip away. But while Tracz is in
some respects every woman, every mother and every daughter- and a
Jewish woman in particular - she is also, quite inimitably and
indubitably, Tamara Tracz. A unique, remarkable and inspiring
person, a writer, filmmaker and artist based in London, she does
things in ways that perhaps only she can. For every word in this
book has been handwritten, and reproduced as she planned, designed
and drew it. The text does not, therefore, flow as regular lines
and pages, but in all manner of configurations and arrangements,
systems and patterns, and in such a way as to enhance the meaning
of the text - or rather to emphasise the mind's reading of the text
just as the sound effects or ambient sound might for a film, or the
drama and nuances of the voice add when reading a story aloud. As
such, 'Three Books' is a form of artist's book, a creative work
that sits at the interface of non-fiction and radical typesetting
experimentation. Designed in collaboration with Herman Lelie, and
beautifully produced in Verona, Italy, 'Three Books' is a story, a
journey and an experience that is not easily forgotten.
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Imprint: |
Anomie Publishing
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
June 2015 |
Authors: |
Tamara Tracz
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As told to: |
Herman Lelie
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Dimensions: |
135 x 210mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
216 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-910221-04-4 |
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LSN: |
1-910221-04-X |
Barcode: |
9781910221044 |
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