Mark Slouka

Nobody's Son: A Memoir (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"I have never before read anything except Nabokov's Speak, Memory that so relentlessly and shrewdly exhausted the kindness and cruelty of recollection's shaping devices." Geoffrey Wolff

Born in Czechoslovakia, Mark Slouka's parents survived the Nazis only to have to escape the Communist purges after the war. Smuggled out of their own country, the newlyweds joined a tide of refugees moving from Innsbruck to Sydney to New York, dragging with them a history of blood and betrayal that their son would be born into.

From World War I to the present, Slouka pieces together a remarkable story of refugees and war, displacement and denialadmitting into evidence memories, dreams, stories, the lies we inherit, and the lies we tellin an attempt to reach his mother, the enigmatic figure at the center of the labyrinth. Her story, the revelation of her life-long burden and the forty-year love affair that might have saved her, shows the way out of the maze.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393292312
• Artikelnr.: 59589137

Autorenporträt

Mark Slouka's most recent books are the story collection All That Is Left Is All That Matters, the memoir Nobody's Son, and the award-winning novel Brewster. His work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Essays, and the PEN / O. Henry Prize Stories. He lives in Prague.