Biography & Autobiography Personal Memoirs
The Listener
In the Shadow of the Holocaust
- Publisher
- University of Regina Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2019
- Category
- Personal Memoirs, Jewish, Women
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780889776531
- Publish Date
- Sep 2019
- List Price
- $24.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780889776555
- Publish Date
- Sep 2019
- List Price
- $12.99
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Description
In The Listener, a daughter receives a troubling gift: her mother’s stories of surviving World War II in Poland. During the Holocaust, Irene Oore’s mother escaped the death camps by concealing her Jewish identity. Those years found her constantly on the run and on the verge of starvation, living a harrowing and peripatetic existence as she struggled to keep herself and her family alive.
Throughout the memoir, Oore reveals a certain ambivalence towards the gift bestowed upon her. The stories of fear, love, and constant hunger traumatised her as a child. Now, she shares these same stories with her own children, to keep the history alive.
About the author
Irene Oore is the co-author of Marie-Claire Blais: An Annotated Bibliography. Born in Lódz, Poland, she immigrated to Israel as a child and is now a professor of French at Dalhousie University in Halifax.
Editorial Reviews
"Demonstrates the persistence of memory and the pervasiveness of evil." —Kirkus
