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The Boy from Boskovice - A Father's Secret Life (Hardcover)
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The Boy from Boskovice - A Father's Secret Life (Hardcover)
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Vicky Unwin had always known her father - an erstwhile intelligence
officer and respected United Nations diplomat - was Czech, but it
was not until a stranger turned up on her doorstep that she
discovered he was also Jewish. So began a quest to discover the
truth about his past - one that perhaps would help answer the
niggling doubts she had always had about her 'perfect' father.
Finally persuading him to allow her to open a closely guarded cache
of family books and papers, Vicky discovered the identity of her
grandfather: the tormented author and diplomat Hermann Ungar,
hugely controversial in both life and in death, who was a protege
and possible lover of Thomas Mann, and a friend of Berthold Brecht
and Stefan Zweig. How much of her father's child was Vicky - and
how much of his father's child was he? As Vicky worked to uncover
deeply buried family secrets, she would find herself slowly
unpicking the lingering power of 'survivors' guilt' on the
generations that followed the Holocaust, and would learn, via a
deathbed confession, of the existence of a previously unknown
sister. Together, the sisters attempted to come to terms with what
had made their father into the deeply flawed, complex, yet
charismatic man he has always been, journeying together through
grief and heartache towards forgiveness.
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