A01=Eva Figes
Author_Eva Figes
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Product details
- ISBN 9781847080684
- Weight: 146g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 02 Feb 2009
- Publisher: Granta Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Eva Figes and her family fled the horror of Nazi Germany when Eva was only six, forced to leave behind them friends, relatives and their housemaid, Edith. Ten years later, Edith suddenly re-enters their lives. Having miraculously survived wartime Berlin, she had reluctantly emigrated to hostile, volatile Palestine.
Recounting Edith's story, Figes boldly argues that Israel was a product of US foreign policy and continuing and widespread anti-Semitism. Part memoir, part brave polemic, Journey to Nowhere is both a moving account of post-war displacement and a fierce attack on America's role in the Middle East.
Eva Figes was born in Berlin, came to England with her family just before the outbreak of the Second World War, and has lived in London ever since. She is the author of fourteen works of fiction and six works of non-fiction, including the feminist classic, Patriarchal Attitudes and Tales of Innocence and Experience (2003).
