Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating' Sarah Waters
Autor Natasha Walteren Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 mai 2024
'A fierce and beautiful book' EDMUND DE WAAL
'Heartfelt and upfront... A grieving daughter rediscovers her mother's political past' BLAKE MORRISON, Guardian
'A compelling reconstruction of her mother's life as a young anti-nuclear activist defying her suburban parents' CATHERINE TAYLOR, Financial Times
'Eloquent, piercing, gloriously humane' PHILIPPE SANDS
After the sudden death of her mother at age 75, Natasha Walter was thrown into a time of bewilderment and sadness.
It was only when she began to search back through Ruth's history, that she began to understand how her life led to death by her own hand. She learns that Ruth had been brought up to be a conventional young woman, but chose to take huge risks and even break the law for her beliefs in the nuclear disarmament movement of the 1960s.
Reaching further back she explores the history of Ruth's parents, and the story of her grandfather who, as part of the anti-Nazi resistance in the 1930s in Germany, was imprisoned for three years and then went on the run across Europe, finally finding safety in England.
Honest about loss, this memoir also searches for what is valuable in the legacy of a family who lived through some of the great crises of the twentieth century. Without false hope, and with honest passion, Natasha Walter shows us why, even when success is far from assured, it is always important to stand up for what you believe.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780349010595
ISBN-10: 0349010595
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Virago
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0349010595
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Virago
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recenzii
Walter's wise, thoughtful memoir is both deeply affecting and unexpectedly inspiring. A fascinating story of courage, doubt and defiance across three generations, it's the perfect read for daunting times.
An eloquent, piercing, gloriously humane memoir on the wonders of life in the most difficult of moments. It touched me very much.
A fierce and beautiful book
An important and beautiful memoir about how a daughter's feelings for the loss of her beloved mother changes and evolves through grief... dark, painful but also illuminating and healing
Deeply passionate and humane... [a] compelling reconstruction of her mother's life as a young anti-nuclear activist defying her suburban parents... Walter writes powerfully in the book's conclusion about the current challenges facing refugees to the UK
Heartfelt and upfront... A grieving daughter rediscovers her mother's political past
Truly fascinating... A powerful reminder that our actions really do matter
This is a potent book... Walter spreads it out before us with great tenderness, exquisite writing, clear eyes and an open heart
A book about sadness and memory and the attempts people make to come to terms with overwhelming pain... provides an interesting contrast between the feminist issues that ran through her mother's life and those that have determined her own
In this succinct and deeply serious memoir, Natasha relives the days and weeks after her mother's death... the book demonstrates fascinatingly is how children react against their parents
An examination, both glancing and gripping, of [her mother's] life... Walter's familiarity with the displaced and fearful makes her a gentle chronicler of the lives of her grandparents
Walter writes brilliantly about how little a child knows about their parents, and uncovers Ruth's life as the daughter of Jews who fled persecution, and became a Sixties' activist. This is unflinchingly honest: the best book I have read this year
In the course of deeply pondering her mother's legacy, Walter does indeed find meaning, though it's bitter and hard won... The light may well be fading, she concedes; the challenge is to make your stand all the same
'A fascinating story of courage, doubt and defiance across three generations' SARAH WATERS
'Heartfelt and upfront... A grieving daughter rediscovers her mother's political past' BLAKE MORRISON, Guardian
'A compelling reconstruction of her mother's life as a young anti-nuclear activist defying her suburban parents' CATHERINE TAYLOR, Financial Times
'Grief and loss sit alongside hope, in this affecting family story that also reckons with some of humanity's greatest challenges' SUSIE ORBACH
After the sudden suicide of her mother at age 75, Natasha Walter is thrown into bewilderment and sadness.
In trying to understand why her mother took such a shocking decision, she explores Ruth's complicated, courageous life. She traces Ruth's rebellious actions in the nuclear disarmament movement, and the legacy of Ruth's father Georg, whose involvement in the anti-Nazi resistance of the 1930s in Germany led to his imprisonment and torture. Walter looks deeply into the shadows around both lives, and also finds the hope and joy, and remembers the determination that they showed to hold on to justice and truth. And so she finds herself stepping back into life once more. This is a story of ordinary people facing extraordinary challenges, that reminds how we can all stand up for what we believe before the light fades.
An eloquent, piercing, gloriously humane memoir on the wonders of life in the most difficult of moments. It touched me very much.
A fierce and beautiful book
An important and beautiful memoir about how a daughter's feelings for the loss of her beloved mother changes and evolves through grief... dark, painful but also illuminating and healing
Deeply passionate and humane... [a] compelling reconstruction of her mother's life as a young anti-nuclear activist defying her suburban parents... Walter writes powerfully in the book's conclusion about the current challenges facing refugees to the UK
Heartfelt and upfront... A grieving daughter rediscovers her mother's political past
Truly fascinating... A powerful reminder that our actions really do matter
This is a potent book... Walter spreads it out before us with great tenderness, exquisite writing, clear eyes and an open heart
A book about sadness and memory and the attempts people make to come to terms with overwhelming pain... provides an interesting contrast between the feminist issues that ran through her mother's life and those that have determined her own
In this succinct and deeply serious memoir, Natasha relives the days and weeks after her mother's death... the book demonstrates fascinatingly is how children react against their parents
An examination, both glancing and gripping, of [her mother's] life... Walter's familiarity with the displaced and fearful makes her a gentle chronicler of the lives of her grandparents
Walter writes brilliantly about how little a child knows about their parents, and uncovers Ruth's life as the daughter of Jews who fled persecution, and became a Sixties' activist. This is unflinchingly honest: the best book I have read this year
In the course of deeply pondering her mother's legacy, Walter does indeed find meaning, though it's bitter and hard won... The light may well be fading, she concedes; the challenge is to make your stand all the same
'A fascinating story of courage, doubt and defiance across three generations' SARAH WATERS
'Heartfelt and upfront... A grieving daughter rediscovers her mother's political past' BLAKE MORRISON, Guardian
'A compelling reconstruction of her mother's life as a young anti-nuclear activist defying her suburban parents' CATHERINE TAYLOR, Financial Times
'Grief and loss sit alongside hope, in this affecting family story that also reckons with some of humanity's greatest challenges' SUSIE ORBACH
After the sudden suicide of her mother at age 75, Natasha Walter is thrown into bewilderment and sadness.
In trying to understand why her mother took such a shocking decision, she explores Ruth's complicated, courageous life. She traces Ruth's rebellious actions in the nuclear disarmament movement, and the legacy of Ruth's father Georg, whose involvement in the anti-Nazi resistance of the 1930s in Germany led to his imprisonment and torture. Walter looks deeply into the shadows around both lives, and also finds the hope and joy, and remembers the determination that they showed to hold on to justice and truth. And so she finds herself stepping back into life once more. This is a story of ordinary people facing extraordinary challenges, that reminds how we can all stand up for what we believe before the light fades.