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In My Mother's House

In My Mother's House is a beautiful, haunting, and expertly told novel about a daughter's obsession to understand her mother's commitment to silence about their family's experiences during WWII Vienna. The story of Elizabeth and her mother Jenny is remarkable for its fullness of details: the pieces of family silver the grandmother mails to Jenny, piece by piece, over the years; Jenny's vivid memories of her uncle's viola d'amore lessons; the smell of the wood floors in the family's Vienna home. It's an emotional story of what is inherited from one generation to the next.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 272
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-312-31825-3
  • EAN
  • 9780312318253
  • Genres
  • fiction, war, jewish, holocaust
  • Release date
  • 2004