FSS is an excellent and varied writer. In this new book, she looks at her father’s life through the papers in a suitcase revealing how he was exiled from Romania during the war, to Turkey then Egypt and eventually Britain, and ultimately to the borderless territory of Alzheimer’s.
The Suitcase: Six Attempts to Cross a Border
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£18.99
Edition:Hardback978178733054203/06/2021
Categories: 01. Spring Books 2021: Biographical, Biography, Letters & Diaries, Spring Books 2021
Tags: Biography and non-fiction prose, Coping with Alzheimer's and dementia, European history, Local and family history, nostalgia, Migration, immigration and emigration, Poland, Republic of South Africa, Romania, Turkey, United Kingdom, Great Britain
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