Book
Shadows of Berlin : a novel
Call Number
- FICTION GILL (OSH)
Publication Information
Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2022]
Physical Description
398 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
"1955 in New York City, the city of progress. But in the Perlman residence, the past is as close as the present. Rachel Perlman, a child of Berlin and an artist bearing her mother's legacy, arrives in New York as part of the wave of Jewish Displaced persons who managed to survive the brutalities of the war. But despite her efforts, Rachel is unable to live the "normal" life of an American housewife, not until she can shake the ghosts of her past and the tremendous guilt that weighs down on her: her own "crime" of survival"--
Notes
Includes reading group guide and a conversation with the author (pages 391-395).