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This new edition of The House of Memory: Stories by Jewish Women
Writers of Latin America revisits the meaning of heritage and home,
exploring the experience of losing the familiar to embrace the
unknown. While often painful in its examination of antisemitism,
this collection of essays embraces the belief that hope and love
can triumph over adversity and racism. This collection contains
over thirty stories from internationally acclaimed writers, such as
Clarice Lispector and Margo Glantz, as well as new voices, with
some appearing for the first time in English translations. Although
many of the stories are rooted in the Jewish experience and
tradition, there is a universal resonance that transcends place,
race, gender and religion to speak of matters that are still
ever-present to all of us.
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Braided Memories (Hardcover)
Marjorie Agosin; Photographs by Samuel Shats; Translated by Alison Ridley
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R1,378
Discovery Miles 13 780
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Braided Memories (Paperback)
Marjorie Agosin; Photographs by Samuel Shats; Translated by Alison Ridley
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R1,121
Discovery Miles 11 210
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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In this evocative and emotional work, the poet, novelist, and human
rights activist Marjorie Agosin pays homage to her
great-grandmother, Helena Broder. As a young woman, Helena escaped
Vienna to seek refuge in Chile, leaving shortly after the Night of
Broken Glass in 1938 when the Nazi regime unleashed a campaign of
violence, terror and destruction against the Jewish population.
This book takes readers on Marjorie's journey through time and
space, and across thresholds between life, death and dreams, to
discover Helena's lost voice. This is not a linear journey, but one
that braids together the past, the present, and the future,
allowing Marjorie to give Helena, an exiled woman, a third home in
the liminal space of memory and literature; a safe haven where she
can be complete rather than fragmented, a place where her
"exhausted suitcase" can finally rest. This touching collection of
poems, in Marjorie Agosin's native Spanish together with Alison
Ridley's delicate English translation, is accompanied by images
from the Chilean photographer Samuel Shats, as well as poignant
memorabilia of Helena herself.
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