by Viola Roggenkamp · Augsburg : Weltbild, · tapa dura · ISBN 9783828986770
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«Familienleben» is the novel by Viola Roggenkamp, published by Weltbild in hardback (437 pages, in German).
Hamburg, 1967. Fania Schiefer, a thirteen-year-old girl, observes the life of her German-Jewish family in an old villa in the elegant district of Harvestehude. Her mother Alma, a Holocaust survivor, obsessively watches over her daughters while the family tries to maintain an everyday normality marked by the memory of trauma, Jewish identity and the awakening of adolescence.
The Weltbild edition is a licence; the work was originally published by Arche Verlag in 2004.
For readers of family novels with a historical background, interested in contemporary German literature and in the aftermath of the Holocaust in new generations.
