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The internationally acclaimed autobiographical novel - A timely and vivid portrayal of a child refugee's experiences.
The internationally acclaimed autobiographical novel - A timely and vivid portrayal of a child refugee's experiences
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Nine months after the Nazi occupation of Austria, 600 Jewish children assembled at Vienna station to board the first of the Kindertransports bound for Britain. Among them was 10-year-old Lore Segal.
For the next seven years, she lived as a refugee in other people's houses, moving from the Orthodox Levines in Liverpool, to the staunchly working-class Hoopers in Kent, to the genteel Miss Douglas and her sister in Guildford. Few understood the terrors she had fled, or the crushing responsibility of trying to help her parents gain a visa. Amazingly, she succeeds and two years later her parents arrive; their visa allows them to work as domestic servantsβa humiliation for which they must be grateful.
In Other People's Houses, Segal evokes with deep compassion, clarity, and calm the experience of a child uprooted from a loving home to become stranded among strangers.
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Other People's Houses is celebrated for its beautiful, elliptical prose and retains a timely relevance despite being first published 54 years ago, as noted by Observer.
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ISBN: 9781908745750
Publisher: Sort of Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 31 May 2018
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Sort of Books
Edition: Main
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 28.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 200.0mm
Weight: 255g
Pages: 224
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About the Author
Lore Segal (born in Vienna in 1928) is an American novelist, translator, children's author and teacher. Other People's Houses (1958) was the first of her five novels. It draws closely from her own experience of escaping to Britain in 1938 as part of the Kindertransports and moving from home to home, across deep divisions of class and culture. Lore Segal has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and is a regular contributor to the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review and the New Republic.
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