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Tales of innocence and experience : an exploration / Eva Figes.
Van Pelt Library PR6056.I46 Z476 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Figes, Eva.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Figes, Eva--Childhood and youth.
- Figes, Eva.
- Figes, Eva--Homes and haunts--Germany--Berlin.
- Novelists, English--20th century--Biography.
- Novelists, English.
- Germany--Berlin.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Refugees.
- World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Berlin.
- Fairy tales--Psychological aspects.
- Fairy tales.
- Grandparent and child.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 183 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2003.
- Summary:
- This captivating memoir explores the relationship between the author and her young granddaughter, whose questions about Figes's upbringing unwittingly opens a door into the author's privileged childhood in Germany. But when the Nazis rose to power, Figes and her family fled to England, leaving her own grandparents behind.
- ISBN:
- 1582342598
- OCLC:
- 51728737
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