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- Book Synopsis
- Fractured Identities offers an unflinching look into the complexities of desire, identity, and survival within a Hungarian Jewish family during the crucible of the Second World War. Brace yourself for a harrowing psychosexual journey that confronts the limits of the human psyche and morality. At the story's center is an uncle - a Jungian psychiatrist - whose career is stifled under the oppressive Nazi regime. Bereft of his practice, he grapples with the dissolution of his professional identity. Opposite him is his wife, a once-successful actress and singer. Constrained by her Jewish heritage, she challenges both her own and her husband's sexual boundaries as a form of escape from the confinements of religious and societal norms. Their niece, prodigiously gifted and strikingly beautiful, is raised by her aristocratic, war-hero grandfather. Throughout the war, she faces a relentless assault on her body and mind. Her identity oscillates violently, from a vulnerable Jewish girl to a fierce supporter of Nazi ideology, even as her capacity for scientific innovation and acts of heroism grow. Yet she, too, cannot evade the war's corrosive ethical compromises.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9798889107484
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Austin Macauley Publishers, (05 January 2024)
- Number of Pages
- 560
- Weight
- 858 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 156 x 33 mm
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