Miriam Frank

An Unfinished Portrait (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How does a mother become estranged from her daughter?

Miriam Frank was born in Barcelona on the cusp of the Spanish Civil War among the many young, non-conformist people congregating from all over Europe wanting to fight fascism and social injustice - George Orwell, Willy Brandt, and many others. Her mother Käte was a German communist who had a free liaison with Louis Frank, an anarchist, filmmaker and American counterintelligence spy. Her relaxed pregnancy in Robert Graves' peaceful Deià was soon replaced by a precipitous flight from Barcelona with her infant daughter and one suitcase to Vichy France, to Casablanca and onwards to a community in Mexico surrounding Leon Trotsky, Frida Kahlo and other surrealists, artists, refugees and radicals.

By accident, Miriam learned after her mother's death that she had kept many photographs of the time. As they fled, her mother had held in her other hand a suitcase that contained the albums of her treasured bohemian life in Helgoland, Mallorca, Catalonia, dreams of being free from oppression, as well as snapshots of their early life. It was Miriam's daughter who had been bequeathed the albums and mentioned them. Seeing them for the first time, Miriam resolved to use their poignant images as a means of reconciliation. In this elegant book of journeys, she recreates her mother's life and seeks to address the question how they drifted so far apart after having been so close from birth; and to honour the mother who did everything to save her from a chilling fate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Gibson Square
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783341245
• Artikelnr.: 48805730

Autorenporträt

Miriam Frank previously published an acclaimed memoir, My Innocent Absence: Exile on Five Continents, which was longlisted for the Ackeley Prize 2011. She was one of the first senior lecturers in anaesthesia at London Hospital and was married to the painter Rudolf Kortokraks, Oskar Kokoschka's designated successor at the School of Vision. Schooled in Mexico, she trained as a doctor in New Zealand, lived in Israel, and moved to Islington, London, when she met her husband. She has translated works from the Spanish and currently lives in Battersea, South West London.