Shadows of Berlin : a novel /
Gillham, David R.,
Shadows of Berlin : a novel / David R Gillham. - 398 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes reading group guide and a conversation with the author (pages 391-395).
"1955 in New York City, the city of progress. But in the Perlman residence, the past is as close as the present. Rachel Perlman, a child of Berlin and an artist bearing her mother's legacy, arrives in New York as part of the wave of Jewish Displaced persons who managed to survive the brutalities of the war. But despite her efforts, Rachel is unable to live the "normal" life of an American housewife, not until she can shake the ghosts of her past and the tremendous guilt that weighs down on her: her own "crime" of survival"--
9781728250441 1728250447
2021037069
Jewish refugees--Fiction.
Jewish women--Fiction.
Holocaust survivors--Fiction.
Guilt--Fiction.
Post-traumatic stress disorder in women--Fiction.
Psychic trauma--Fiction.
Novels.
Historical fiction.
Shadows of Berlin : a novel / David R Gillham. - 398 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes reading group guide and a conversation with the author (pages 391-395).
"1955 in New York City, the city of progress. But in the Perlman residence, the past is as close as the present. Rachel Perlman, a child of Berlin and an artist bearing her mother's legacy, arrives in New York as part of the wave of Jewish Displaced persons who managed to survive the brutalities of the war. But despite her efforts, Rachel is unable to live the "normal" life of an American housewife, not until she can shake the ghosts of her past and the tremendous guilt that weighs down on her: her own "crime" of survival"--
9781728250441 1728250447
2021037069
Jewish refugees--Fiction.
Jewish women--Fiction.
Holocaust survivors--Fiction.
Guilt--Fiction.
Post-traumatic stress disorder in women--Fiction.
Psychic trauma--Fiction.
Novels.
Historical fiction.