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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778232503321

Autore

Gottlieb Erika

Titolo

Becoming my mother's daughter [[electronic resource] ] : a story of survival and renewal / / Erika Gottlieb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-55458-691-7

1-282-16684-0

9786613809919

1-55458-094-3

1-4356-4269-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (187 p.)

Collana

Life writing series

Disciplina

940.53

940.53180922

943.9/004924024

Soggetti

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Hungary - Budapest

Mothers and daughters

Budapest (Hungary) Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; The Bridge; The Maze; The Tunnel, 1913-1944; The Tunnel, 1944-1945; The Tunnel, 1952-1982; The Handbag

Sommario/riassunto

Becoming My Mother's Daughter: A Story of Survival and Renewal tells the story of three generations of a Jewish Hungarian family whose fate has been inextricably bound up with the turbulent history of Europe, from the First World War through the Holocaust and the communist takeover after World War II, to the family's dramatic escape and emmigration to Canada. The emotional centre and narrative voice of the story belong to Eva, an artist, dreamer, and writer trying to work through her complex and deep relationship with her mother, whose portrait she cannot paint until she completes h