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005    20161201194827.0 
008    160620s2016    nyuaf         000 0aeng   
010      2016018257 
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020    0393292304|q(hardcover) 
035    (OCoLC)952195755 
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050 00 PS3569.L697|bZ46 2016 
082 00 813.54|aB|223 
100 1  Slouka, Mark,|eauthor. 
245 10 Nobody's son :|ba memoir /|cMark Slouka. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bW.W. Norton & Company,|c[2016] 
264  4 |c©2016 
300    274 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :|billustrations 
       ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "'There comes a time in your life when the past decides to
       run you down,' Mark Slouka writes in this heartbreaking 
       and soul-searching memoir about one man's attempt to 
       reckon with the past. Born in Czechoslovakia, Mark 
       Slouka's parents survived the Nazis only to have to escape
       the Communist purges after the war. Smuggled out of their 
       own country, the newlyweds joined a tide of refugees 
       moving from Innsbruck to Sydney to New York, dragging with
       them a history of blood and betrayal that their son would 
       be born into. From World War I to the present, Slouka 
       pieces together a remarkable story of refugees and war, 
       displacement and denial--admitting into evidence memories,
       dreams, stories, the lies we inherit and the lies we tell-
       -in an attempt to reach his mother, the enigmatic figure 
       at the center of the labyrinth. Her story, the revelation 
       of her life-long burden and the forty-year love affair 
       that might have saved her show the way out of the maze."--
       Dust jacket. 
600 10 Slouka, Mark|xFamily. 
600 10 Slouka, Mark|xChildhood and youth. 
650  0 Czech Americans|vBiography. 
650  0 Authors, American|vBiography. 
650  0 Mothers and sons|zNew York (State)|vBiography. 
650  0 Family secrets|zNew York (State) 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage.|2bisacsh 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.|2bisacsh 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.|2bisacsh 
651  0 New York (State)|vBiography. 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft 
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