Overview
In his English language debut, Santiago H. Amigorena writes to fight the silence that āhas stifled [him] since [he] was bornā, weaving together fiction, biography, and memoir to distill a stirring novel of loss and unshakeable love.
A critical sensation in France, The Ghetto WithinĀ is its authorās personal attempt to confront his grandfatherās silence. Passed down, from generation to generation, the silence of Amigorenaās grandfather became his own. A gripping study of inheritance,The Ghetto Within re-imagines the life of this Jewish grandfather, a Polish exile in Argentina, whose guilt provokes an enduring silence to span generations.
1928. Vicente Rosenberg is one of countless European ƩmigrƩs making a new life for themselves in Argentina. It is here, along the bustling avenues of Buenos Aires, that he will meet and marry Rosita, whose ties to his native Poland are more ancestral than extant. They will have three children and pursue a quiet, comfortable domestic life. Vicente will start a profitable business and, on occasion, look back. Still, despite success, he will ache for his mother, Gustawa, who stayed behind in Warsaw with his siblings.
For years, she writes him several times a month. Yet, as rumors mount from abroad, Vicente is given pause. The war in Europe feels so remote. Over time, his mother's letters become increasingly sporadic and Vicente, through delayed missives and late transmissions, begins to construct the reality of a tragedy that has already occurred. And one day, the letters stop altogether. Racked with guilt and anxiety over the fate of his mother and family, he lapses into a deep despair and longstanding silence.
With his new novel, Amigorena employs language to reclaim his "voice" from the oblivion of familial trauma. An effort to understand the ways in which his grandfatherās silence continues to affect the generations that followed,The Ghetto WithinĀ is a powerful new addition to Holocaust canon, a stunning introduction of an essential new voice to English readers.Ā
Translated from the French by Frank Wynne.
This book title, The Ghetto Within (A Novel) - 9780063018341, ISBN: 9780063018341, by Santiago H. Amigorena, Frank Wynne, published by HarperCollins (August 15, 2023) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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