Catalog Search Results
1) Silverview
Author
Description
Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian's family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns...
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
1987, c1968
Physical Desc
243 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the following five years spent on the harsh Asian steppe.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2011
Physical Desc
9 sound discs (11 hr., 17 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this tale of a Polish family desperately trying to put itself back together after WWII, Silvana and Janusz travel to England where they attempt to put the past behind them. But the secrets they carry pull at the threads of their fragile peace.
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xviii, 587 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy families uprooted by war, their incredible suffering in Hitler's and Stalin's camps, and the near-miraculous survival and rescue of the author's parents who met after the war. Daniel Finkelstein's grandfather Alfred Wiener was a German Jewish intellectual leader who tolled an early warning of the impending Holocaust and became an archivist of Nazi...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Let us know! Suggest a Title