| #835864 in Books | Last Light Studio | 2011-01-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.41 x5.25l,.43 | File type: PDF | 164 pages | ||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Quiet, yes, but powerful, too.|By Lost In a Book|This collection of stories moves from Europe to America (and sometimes back again), following lives that become enmeshed in the Holocaust, either directly or via family legacy. Dreyfus has a gift for coming up with fresh but completely plausible scenarios that highlight the existential anxieties of Jewish Americans in the age of||"[Dreifus] cares deeply about history -- her own family history and the larger history that we all inhabit -- and that's what makes her stories both engaging and consequential." --Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
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A high-ranking Nazi's wife and a Jewish doctor in prewar Berlin. A Jewish immigrant soldier and the German POWs he is assigned to supervise. A refugee returning to Europe for the first time and the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. A son of survivors and technology's potential to reveal long-held family secrets. These are some of the characters and conflicts that emerge in QUIET AMERICANS, in stories that reframe familiar questions about what is r...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Quiet Americans | Erika Dreifus. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
