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The Sunday Times bestseller
'An utterly engrossing book' Nigella Lawson
'Remarkable and gripping' Edmund de Waal
'A near-perfect study of Jewish identity in the 20th century ... I don't hesitate to call it a masterpiece' Telegraph
After her grandmother died, Hadley Freeman travelled to her apartment to…
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A beautifully written and meticulously researched family memoir that made me question what I would have done to survive the turbulence and brutality of the Nazi era. Themes of antisemitism and identity continue to haunt four siblings - Jehuda, Jacob, Sender, and Sala - as they leave Poland behind to establish new lives as Alex, Jacques, Henri, and Sara in Paris.
An irresistible and complex personal story that I would happily reread because I devoured this page turner too quickly! At the heart of it all is Sara, the author’s mysterious, glamorous, melancholy grandmother and a shoebox of her treasured…
From Ruth's list on troubled families and the secrets they keep.
I met Hadley Freeman the year before she published her well-researched, well-written recounting of her French-Jewish family history. A Guardian columnist at the time who now writes for The Sunday Times, she interviewed me about my forthcoming documentary feature, Cojot, which follows a French Holocaust survivor (Michel Cojot) on a quest to kill his father’s Nazi executioner. Cojot’s best friend was Freeman’s dad. So, when House of Glass came out, I dove right in, hoping to learn more about Ron Freeman. This nonfiction book—which is easy to read yet, like many stories that encompass the Holocaust, hard to…
From Boaz's list on 21st century nonfiction about the Holocaust.
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