Lillian Boraks-Nemetz

Mouth of Truth (eBook, ePUB)

Buried Secrets

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Mouth of Truth is a gripping account of impossible choices , divided loyalties and unimaginable horrors. Batya Lightenberg , a Canadian wife and mother tries to live a normal life in oblivion of her troubled past while carrying a legacy of guilt and buried secrets inherited partly from her father, a successful lawyer, turned Jewish policeman in the Warsaw Ghetto. Compelled by a need to unearth the truth about her family, Batya sets out for Eastern Canada, Italy and Poland on a mission of discovery and healing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Guernica Editions Inc
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781771833233
• Artikelnr.: 53558460

Autorenporträt

Lillian Boraks-Nemetz was born in Warsaw, Poland, and is a child survivor of the Holocaust. She escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto and spent the remainder of the war in hiding under a false identity. Boraks-Nemetz graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Masters Degree in Comparative Literature. She is an author of an award winning novel The Old Brown Suitcase followed by The Sunflower Diary and the Lenski File, as well as two volumes of poetry Ghost Children and Garden of Steel. She has translated Polish Emigre poetry into English and has also co-compiled the YA anthology of Canadian Holocaust writing, Tapestry of Hope. From 1980-2016, Boraks-Nemetz worked at the University of British Columbia's Writing Center. She often speaks to students about the consequences of racism, as a member of the Holocaust Center's Outreach Program. She is a board member of the Janusz Korczak Association of Canada. She lives and works in Vancouver.