by Irene Dische · SALAMANDRA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788419346278
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A moving story about the relationship between a grandmother, her daughter, and her granddaughter in bustling post-war New York. Elisabeth Rother, the empress of the new world, has decided to write her memoirs and doesn't intend to mince words. Through her story, we get to know the clan of her German Catholic-Jewish family based in the United States, from her husband, a converted Jewish doctor, to her talented daughter, Renate, and her granddaughter, Irene Dische. The novel traces entire chapters of 20th-century history, from the rise of Nazism in Germany to their forced exile in New York. At the center of her concerns is the rebellion of Renate and Irene. This work is both a unique account of immigration and life in New York for an entire generation who had to flee their countries because of Nazism, and a moving love letter about the relationship between grandmothers, mothers, and daughters.
Irene Dische is an American-Austrian author, journalist, screenwriter, and librettist whose work explores the German-Jewish experience, alienation, and exile.
