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After Long Silence : A Memoir by Helen Fremont (2000, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100385333706

ISBN-139780385333702

eBay Product ID (ePID)766249

Product Key Features

Book TitleAfter Long Silence : a Memoir

Number of Pages368 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2000

TopicHolocaust, Religious, Dysfunctional Families

IllustratorYes

GenreFamily & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorHelen Fremont

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight11.1 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews"Fascinating . . . A tragic saga, but at the same time it often reads like a thriller filled with acts of extraordinary courage, descriptions of dangerous journeys and a series of secret identities." -- Chicago Tribune oignant . . . affecting . . . part detective story, part literary memoir, part imagined past." -- The New York Times Book Review "Riveting . . . painfully authentic . . . a poignant memoir, a labor of love for the parents she never really knew." -- The Boston Globe "Mesmerizing . . . Fremont has accomplished something that seems close to impossible. She has made a fresh and worthy contribution to the vast literature of the Holocaust." -- The Washington Post Book World "A story of safe but costly passage from one identity to another that takes us from Europe to America via World War II . . . [Fremont] has the intelligence and imagination to question her own motives. This allows her to question the memoir form, even as she deploys it so beautifully." -- The New York Times "An extraordinary tale . . . eloquently written. . . . Its complex narrative weaves back and forth between past and present, the tale and its discovery." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer, "A story of safe but costly passage from one identity to another that takes us from Europe to America via World War II...[Fremont] has the intelligence and imagination to question her own motives. This allows her to question the memoir form, even as she deploys it so beautifully." -- The New York Times "An extraordinary tale...eloquently written....Its complex narrative weaves back and forth between past and present, the tale and its discovery." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer "Fascinating...A tragic saga, but at the same time it often reads like a thriller filled with acts of extraordinary courage, descriptions of dangerous journeys and a series of secret identities." -- Chicago Tribune "Riveting...painfully authentic...a poignant memoir, a labor of love for the parents she never really knew." -- The Boston Globe "Mesmerizing...Fremont has accomplished something that seems close to impossible: She has made a fresh and worthy contribution to the vast literature of the Holocaust." -- The Washington Post Book World, "A story of safe but costly passage from one identity to another that takes us from Europe to America via World War II...[Fremont] has the intelligence and imagination to question her own motives. This allows her to question the memoir form, even as she deploys it so beautifully." --The New York Times "An extraordinary tale...eloquently written....Its complex narrative weaves back and forth between past and present, the tale and its discovery." --The Philadelphia Inquirer "Fascinating...A tragic saga, but at the same time it often reads like a thriller filled with acts of extraordinary courage, descriptions of dangerous journeys and a series of secret identities." --Chicago Tribune "Riveting...painfully authentic...a poignant memoir, a labor of love for the parents she never really knew." --The Boston Globe "Mesmerizing...Fremont has accomplished something that seems close to impossible: She has made a fresh and worthy contribution to the vast literature of the Holocaust." --The Washington Post Book World

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal940.53/18/092 B

Synopsis"Fascinating . . . A tragic saga, but at the same time it often reads like a thriller filled with acts of extraordinary courage, descriptions of dangerous journeys and a series of secret identities." -- Chicago Tribune "To this day, I don't even know what my mother's real name is." Helen Fremont was raised as a Roman Catholic. It wasn't until she was an adult, practicing law in Boston, that she discovered her parents were Jewish--Holocaust survivors living invented lives. Not even their names were their own. In this powerful memoir, Helen Fremont delves into the secrets that held her family in a bond of silence for more than four decades, recounting with heartbreaking clarity a remarkable tale of survival, as vivid as fiction but with the resonance of truth. Driven to uncover their roots, Fremont and her sister pieced together an astonishing story: of Siberian Gulags and Italian royalty, of concentration camps and buried lives. After Long Silence is about the devastating price of hiding the truth; about families; about the steps we take, foolish or wise, to protect ourselves and our loved ones. No one who reads this book can be unmoved, or fail to understand the seductive, damaging power of secrets. Praise for After Long Silence "Poignant . . . affecting . . . part detective story, part literary memoir, part imagined past." -- The New York Times Book Review "Riveting . . . painfully authentic . . . a poignant memoir, a labor of love for the parents she never really knew." -- The Boston Globe "Mesmerizing . . . Fremont has accomplished something that seems close to impossible. She has made a fresh and worthy contribution to the vast literature of the Holocaust." -- The Washington Post Book World