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A carregar... The House by the Lake: One House, Five Families, and a Hundred Years of German History (2015)por Thomas Harding
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Na primavera de 1993, Thomas Harding foi a Berlim levando sua avó em visita a uma casa à beira de um lago. A avó dizia que ali era seu “lugar da alma”, um santuário que ela fora obrigada a abandonar quando os nazistas tomaram o poder. ... A casa estava abandonada, deteriorada, em vias de ser demolida.
It is Harding’s great achievement that he has painted a large canvas of history, but done so with glinting individual stories. Prémios
"In the summer of 1993, Thomas Harding traveled to Germany with his grandmother to visit a small house by a lake on the outskirts of Berlin. It had been a holiday home for her and her family, but in the 1930s, she had been forced to flee to England as the Nazis swept to power. Nearly twenty years later, the house was government property and soon to be demolished. It was Harding's legacy, one that had been loved, abandoned, fought over -- a house his grandmother had desired until her death. Could it be saved? And should it? As Harding began to make inquiries, he unearthed secrets that had lain hidden for decades about the lives of the five families who had lived there: a wealthy landowner, a prosperous Jewish family, a renowned composer, a widow and her children, and a Stasi informant. All had made the house their home, and all -- bar one -- had been forced out. The house had been the site of domestic bliss and of contentment, but also of terrible grief and tragedy. It had weathered storms, fires and abandonment; witnessed murders, had withstood the trauma of a world war, and the dividing of a nation. As the story of the house began to take shape, Harding realized that there was a chance to save it, but in doing so, he would have to resolve his own family's feelings towards their former homeland -- and a hatred handed down through the generations. -- For readers of Edmund de Waal, Daniel Mendelson, and David Laski" -- Provided by publisher. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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