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The Suitcase: Six Attempts to Cross a Border

The Suitcase: Six Attempts to Cross a Border

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SKU 9781784707705 Categories Biographies & Memoirs, Products

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Now she finds herself with the dilemma of two competing urges: wanting to know what's in the suitcase, and wanting not to know. So begins this captivating exploration of history, memory and geography, as Frances Stonor Saunders unpicks her father's and his family's past.<br...

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Product ID:	9781784707705
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	The Suitcase
Subtitle:	Six Attempts to Cross a Border
Authors:	Author: Frances Stonor Saunders
Page Count:	240
Subjects:	Biography and non-fiction prose, Prose: non-fiction, European history, Alzheimer’s and dementia, Local and family history, nostalgia, European history, Alzheimer’s & dementia, Local interest, family history & nostalgia, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Poland, Turkey, Romania, Egypt, Republic of South Africa
Description:	Select Guide Rating Now she finds herself with the dilemma of two competing urges: wanting to know what's in the suitcase, and wanting not to know. So begins this captivating exploration of history, memory and geography, as Frances Stonor Saunders unpicks her father's and his family's past. *Winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize 2022* ''This is family history at its best... the words fizz off the page and flutter in the mind'' Sunday Times *If you open that suitcase you''ll never close it again.* Ten years ago, Frances Stonor Saunders was handed an old suitcase filled with her father''s papers. Her father''s life had been a study in borders - exiled from Romania during the war, to Turkey then Egypt and eventually Britain, and ultimately to the borderless territory of Alzheimer''s. The unopened suitcase seems to represent everything that had made her father unknowable to her in life. So begins a captivating exploration of history, memory and geography, as Frances Stoner Saunders decides to unpick her family''s past.
Imprint Name:	Vintage
Publisher Name:	Vintage Publishing
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2022-06-02

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Weight	200 g
Dimensions	129 × 198 × 29 mm