Bibliograph

East of Berlin, Hannah Moscovitch

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East of Berlin, Hannah Moscovitch

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

East of Berlin

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Hannah Moscovitch

Summary

Standing outside his father's study in Paraguay, Rudi is smoking cigarettes, trying to work up the courage to go in. It has been seven years since he stood in that same spot; seven years since he left his family and their history behind him. As a teenager, Rudi discovered that his father was a doctor at Auschwitz. Trying to reconcile his inherited guilt, Rudi lashed out against his family and his friends, and eventually fled to Germany. While there, he follows in his father's footsteps by studying medicine, and falls in love with Sarah, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. Questioning redemption, love, guilt, and the sins of the father, East of Berlin is a tour de force that follows Rudi's emotional upheaval as he comes to terms with a frightening past that was never his own

Target audience

adult

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