Alice Nelson

On 27 January 2015, the world commemorated the 70-year anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. As the last living witnesses of that terrible time pass away, award-winning writer Alice Nelson presents a powerful collection of fourteen narratives by Australian Holocaust survivors told in their voices. Each individual's account of the war years—and of the life that followed—tells a deeply personal...

Faithless is a remarkable story about love, literature, family, mortality, and that which survives mortality, among other profound human experiences. – Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prizewinner for The Hours "The year's greatest surprise was Alice Nelson's Faithless. The novel, and the author, had been unfamiliar to me. If I say that Faithless is a gorgeous, moving story about love and literature,...

Reminiscent of Colm Toibin's Brooklyn, this is a breakthrough novel from a humane and perceptive writer exploring the traumas that divide families and the love and hope that creates them. A love song to the idea of families in all their mysteries and complexities, their different configurations and the hope that creates them. Marina and her husband, Jacob, were each...