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Title Statement | More than I love my life / David Grossman ; translated by Jessica Cohen. |
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Author | Grossman, David |
Additional Contributors | Cohen, Jessica |
Publication | New York: Alfred A. Knopf,2021. |
Edition | First American edition. |
Extent of Item | 281 pages |
ISBN | 9780593318911 0593318919 |
Other Number | 4094984 |
General Notes | "This is a Borzoi Book"--Title page verso. Translation of: Iti ha'chayim mesachek harbeh. |
Summary | The story of three generations of women and a secret that needs to be told. The story was inspired by the life of a friend and confidante of David Grossman who, in the late 1940s, was imprisoned and tortured on the notorious Goli Otok, a barren island prison off the coast of Croatia. Grossman's telling focuses on three strong women--Vera, 90; her daughter, Nina; and her granddaughter, Gili, who at 39 years old is a filmmaker. A bitter secret divides each mother and daughter pair, though Gili--abandoned when she was just three by Nina--has been close to her grandmother throughout her life. With Gili making the arrangements, they travel together back to Goli ("the Adriatic Alcatraz"), where Vera was imprisoned, enslaved, and tortured for three years as a young wife, when she refused to betray her husband and denounce him as an enemy of the people. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Jewish families--Fiction |
Intergenerational relations--Fiction | |
Secrecy--Fiction | |
Mothers and daughters--Fiction | |
Political prisoners--Fiction | |
By Location | Adriatic Sea Region--Fiction |
By Genre | Psychological fiction |