A powerful reflection on how trauma is passed from generation to generation. 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 traumatized her as a child.
Now, she shares these same stories with her own children, to keep the history alive.
| ISBN: | 9780889776531 |
| Publication date: | 14th September 2022 |
| Author: | Irene Oore |
| Publisher: | University of Regina Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 160 pages |
| Series: | The Regina Collection |
| Genres: |
The Holocaust Memoirs |
A powerful reflection on how trauma is passed from generation to generation. In The Listener, a daughter receives a troubling gift: her mother's stories of surviving World War II in Poland.
The Listener features in the following genres: The Holocaust, Memoirs
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The Listener was written by Irene Oore and published by University of Regina Press
The Listener has 160 pages
Yes it is part of The Regina Collection series