On the 2nd of August 1947 a young man gets off a train in a small Swedish town. He has survived the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz, and the harrowing slave camps and transports during the final months of Nazi Germany. Now he has to learn to live with his memories. In this intelligent and deeply moving book, Goeran Rosenberg returns to his own childhood in order to tell his father's story. It is also the story of the chasm that soon opens between the world of the child, suffused with the optimism, progress and collective oblivion of post-war Sweden, and the world of the father, haunted by the long shadows of the past.

A shattering literary memoir by the son of Holocaust survivors, and a darkly tender exploration of a child's relationship with his father

About the Author
GOERAN ROSENBERG is one of Sweden's best-known writers and journalists.

Awards
Winner of August Prize 2012 (UK) and Prix du meilleur livre etranger 2014 (UK).



Book Information
ISBN 9781783781300
Author Goeran Rosenberg
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint Granta Books
Publisher Granta Books
Weight(grams) 275g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 127mm * 20mm