Reading Claudius【電子書籍】[ Caroline Heller ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A stunning elegy to a vanished time, Caroline Heller's memoir traces the lives of her parents, her uncle and their circle of intellectuals and dreamers from Central Europe on the eve of World War Two to present-day America.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In this unforgettable dual memoir of her parents' lives and her own, Caroline Heller brings to life the lost world of European caf? culture, and reminds us of the sustaining power of literature in the most challenging of times.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Heller vividly evokes prewar Prague, where her parents lived, loved, and studied. Her mother, Liese Florsheim, was a young German refugee initially drawn to Erich Heller, a bright but detached intellectual, rather than to his brother, Paul. As Hitler's power spreads and World War II becomes inevitable, their world is destroyed and they must flee the country and continent. Paul, who will eventually become the author's father, is trapped and sent to Buchenwald, where he survives under hellish conditions.＜/p＞ ＜p．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る