| Description |
x, 494 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-492). |
| Contents |
"What's past is prologue" -- The black forest -- Die Nazi-Zeit -- The sidewalk of cuckolds -- The tattler's stone -- Gray days, phony war -- Traveling shoes -- Occupied -- A telling time -- Crossing the line -- The sun king -- F'attendrai -- A time out of time -- Darkness on the face of the deep -- Incommunicado -- Leben in limbo -- Hotel terminus -- The lion and Miss America -- Love letters -- From the Dyckman house to our new house -- The other woman -- Atlas -- Togetherness -- Crossing the border -- The agenda -- Midi moins dix -- A la fin. |
| Summary |
An award-winning former New York Times investigative reporter recounts his Jewish mother and grandparents' harrowing escape from Germany, his mother's 50-year separation from a Catholic Frenchman she passionately loved and the author's efforts years later to reunite them. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- France -- Biography.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- France -- Biography.
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Jewish refugees -- United States -- Biography.
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First loves -- France -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9781590514962 hardcover $27.95 |
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1590514963 hardcover |
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