Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming on the War Roads of Europe
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (557 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01M255BA9 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 161 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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Waldie, author of Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir“An exquisite book for the ages as it unfolds from its first mysterious sentence into a masterpiece about war, survival, memory, and, most movingly of all, human need.” - David Finkel, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Good Soldiers. “A highly polished memoir of enormous heart.” - Kirkus (starred review)“Verzemnieks does not shirk from confronting the extremities of human behavior; but she also gives us the rich textures of a world in which poetic mythology coexists with sophisticated modernity, the dead mingle with the living, and t
A tale of exile and homecoming Bigglesworth "The road I must travel to reach my grandmothers lost village is like tracing the progression of an equation designed to restore lost time" this sentence captured me and kept me reading: "Among the Living and the Dead" This the beginnings of her homecoming. It is history as poetry, prose and philosophy all woven together. This new breakthrough style of memoir, new to me, reads like a novel, and . "This treasure" according to Nancy Jarmin. The gifted writer of this excellent book folds the reader into her family. With her, we experience the struggle of family members forced into exile abroad and feel their longing for their people and the cherished homeland they left behind. Together, we drive and walk the quiet lanes of northern Latvia, some disused and now nearly grown over, to find the family elders who suffered not only the wa. "Beautiful, resonant" according to Kit Wilkinson. Beautiful, resonant, horrifying, edifying, and tragically relevant. I absolutely could not put it down. Don't start it if you have plans; you'll cancel.
She has won a Pushcart Prize and a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award, and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa. . Inara Verzemnieks teaches creative nonfiction at the University of Iowa
Weaving these two parts of the family story together in spellbinding, lyrical prose, she gives us a profound and cathartic account of loss, survival, resilience, and love.. Raised by her grandparents in Washington State, Inara grew up among expatriates, scattering smuggled Latvian sand over the coffins of the dead, singing folk songs about a land she had never visited.When Inara discovers the scarf Livija wore when she left home, in a box of her grandmother’s belongings, this tangible remnant of the past points the way back to the remote village where her family broke apart. Coming to know Ausma and the trauma of her exile to Siberia under Stalin, Inara pieces together Livija’s survival through years as a refugee. There it is said the suspend their exile once a year for a pilgrimage through forests a