During a walk to town, Elizabeth Welt Trahan allows the memories of her childhood to surface after more than a half century - first in short, disconnected snippets but then more and more insistently, until she is pulled back into the nightmarish world of Hitler's Vienna where, being Jewish, she barely survived. But this is also the story of the maturing process of a young girl during those shattering times. Despite an aloof and insensitive father, a circle of friends that is continually decimated by deportations, and the ...
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During a walk to town, Elizabeth Welt Trahan allows the memories of her childhood to surface after more than a half century - first in short, disconnected snippets but then more and more insistently, until she is pulled back into the nightmarish world of Hitler's Vienna where, being Jewish, she barely survived. But this is also the story of the maturing process of a young girl during those shattering times. Despite an aloof and insensitive father, a circle of friends that is continually decimated by deportations, and the abrupt ending of a timid first love relationship, she is able to draw strength from the trivial and small pleasures of daily living.
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Publisher:
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Published:
1998
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17872188973
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Seller's Description:
Very Good. Signed and dated by the author on the title page, with a brief inscription to a named individual. Clean pages except for two faint yellow spots on the final (blank) page and a stray ballpoint mark on the right edge of the page block; the soft cover has several short pressure marks as well as some shelfwear at corners, otherwise clean and sound. 252pp. incl. index.; Signed by Author.
