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The boy from Boskovice
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- Book Synopsis
- Vicky Unwin had always known her father - an erstwhile intelligence officer and respected United Nations diplomat - was Czech, but it was not until a stranger turned up on her doorstep that she discovered he was also Jewish.So began a quest to discover the truth about his past - one that perhaps would help answer the niggling doubts she had always had about her 'perfect' father. Finally persuading him to allow her to open a closely guarded cache of family books and papers, Vicky discovered the identity of her grandfather: the tormented author and diplomat Hermann Ungar, hugely controversial in both life and in death, who was a protégé and possible lover of Thomas Mann, and a friend of Berthold Brecht and Stefan Zweig. How much of her father's child was Vicky - and how much of his father's child was he? As Vicky worked to uncover deeply buried family secrets, she would find herself slowly unpicking the lingering power of 'survivors' guilt' on the generations that followed the Holocaust, and would learn, via a deathbed confession, of the existence of a previously unknown sister.Together, the sisters attempted to come to terms with what had made their father into the deeply flawed, complex, yet charismatic man he has always been, journeying together through grief and heartache towards forgiveness.
- About The Author
- Vicky Unwin has had a long career, centred round her African roots, in both book and newspaper publishing. But she was always intrigued by her father's past and started to research the family history. Her first book Love and War in The WRNS (History Press), a collection of her mother's letters home during the Second World War, was published in June 2015. Following her father's death in 2012 she returned to the family secrets and this book tells the story. @vickyunwin; unwinvicky
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- ISBN
- 9781783529063
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Unbound, (21 January 2021)
- Number of Pages
- 400
- Weight
- 716 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 240 x 240 x 38 mm
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