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1947: Where Now Begins (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781590518960)
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Elisabeth ﾅsbrink
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xAn NPR Best Book of the Year 2018 "One of the best books, certainly the best nonfiction book, that I've read recently." --Nancy Pearl on NPR's Morning Edition
"An extraordinary achievement." --New York Times Book Review An award-winning writer captures a year that defined the modern world, intertwining historical events around the globe with key moments from her personal history. The year 1947 marks a turning point in the twentieth century. Peace with Germany becomes a tool to fortify the West against the threats of the Cold War. The CIA is created, Israel is about to be born, Simone de Beauvoir experiences the love of her life, an ill George Orwell is writing his last book, and Christian Dior creates the hyper-feminine New Look as women are forced out of jobs and back into the home. In the midst of it all, a ten-year-old Hungarian-Jewish boy resides in a refugee camp for children of parents murdered by the Nazis. This year he has to make the decision of a lifetime, one that will determine his own fate and that of his daughter yet to be born, Elisabeth.
Author: Elisabeth ﾅsbrink
ISBN-10: 1590518969
ISBN-13: 9781590518960
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Language: English
Published: 01/30/2018
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.80w x 1.20d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2017
Library Journal 11/15/2017 pg. 88
Shelf Awareness 02/16/2018
"An extraordinary achievement." --New York Times Book Review An award-winning writer captures a year that defined the modern world, intertwining historical events around the globe with key moments from her personal history. The year 1947 marks a turning point in the twentieth century. Peace with Germany becomes a tool to fortify the West against the threats of the Cold War. The CIA is created, Israel is about to be born, Simone de Beauvoir experiences the love of her life, an ill George Orwell is writing his last book, and Christian Dior creates the hyper-feminine New Look as women are forced out of jobs and back into the home. In the midst of it all, a ten-year-old Hungarian-Jewish boy resides in a refugee camp for children of parents murdered by the Nazis. This year he has to make the decision of a lifetime, one that will determine his own fate and that of his daughter yet to be born, Elisabeth.
Author: Elisabeth ﾅsbrink
ISBN-10: 1590518969
ISBN-13: 9781590518960
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Language: English
Published: 01/30/2018
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.80w x 1.20d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2017
Library Journal 11/15/2017 pg. 88
Shelf Awareness 02/16/2018
By Elisabeth ﾅsbrink
xElisabeth ﾅsbrink is a nonfiction writer and journalist. She has worked for the Swedish National Television for fifteen years as a reporter and editor for news shows, cultural programs and investigative journalism. Her book And in the Vienna Woods the Trees Remain (Och i Wienerwald st蚌 tr臈en kvar) received worldwide attention for revealing new information about IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad's ties to Nazism. It won several awards, including the August Prize for Best Swedish Non-Fiction Book of the Year (2011). ﾅsbrink made her debut as a playwright with Tracks (R舁s), based on the authentic minutes from a meeting convened by Herman Ging in 1938, and has since written four plays.
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