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The Lost Europeans (Paperback)
Emanuel Litvinoff; Introduction by Patrick Wright
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Coming back was worse, much worse, than Martin Stone had
anticipated. Martin Stone returns to the city from which his family
was driven in 1938. He has concealed his destination from his
father, and hopes to win some form of restitution for the depressed
old man living in exile in London. THE LOST EUROPEANS portrays a
tense, ruined yet flourishing Berlin where nothing is quite what it
seems.
In Journey Through a Small Planet (1972), the writer Emanuel
Litvinoff recalls his working-class Jewish childhood in the East
End of London: a small cluster of streets right next to the city,
but worlds apart in culture and spirit. With vivid intensity
Litvinoff describes the overcrowded tenements of Brick Lane and
Whitechapel, the smell of pickled herring and onion bread, the
rattle of sewing machines and chatter in Yiddish. He also relates
stories of his parents, who fled from Russia in 1914, his
experiences at school and a brief flirtation with Communism.
Unsentimental, vital and almost dream like, this is a masterly
evocation of a long-vanished world.
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