Loss, trauma, memory, and, above all, the ties of family and being Jewish are the elements that weave together this panoramic story. Come Back for Me travels through time and place only to bring us, ultimately, to the connections between generations. Artur Mandelkorn is a young Hungarian Holocaust survivor whose desperate quest to find his sister takes him to post-war Israel. Intersecting Artur's tale is that of Suzy Kohn, a Toronto teenager whose seemingly tranquil life is shattered when her uncle's sudden death tears her family apart. Their stories eventually come together in Israel following the Six-Day War, where love and understanding become the threads that bind the two narratives together. Like Sarah's Key, Come Back for Me deals evocatively with the scars left by tragedy and the possibilities for healing.

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Loss, trauma, memory, and, above all, the ties of family and being Jewish are the elements that weave together this panoramic story.
"Sharon Hart-Green's Come Back for Me is a vital novel that begins in bad times and ends in better times. It's a beautifully told story about a family that is all but destroyed during the Holocaust, but whose few survivors carry on and, in the case of Artur Mandelkorn, find some measure of success and contentment, even if the losses of the past are forever with him. Juxtaposed to the Old World story is a New World story that is poignant because it records the trials and tribulations of a normal life with a deeply troubled one as its backdrop. Come Back for Me is an important book."
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Product details

ISBN
9781988326061
Published
2017
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Weight
400 gr
Height
227 mm
Width
177 mm
Thickness
18 mm
Age
01, G, Y, 01, 03
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
304

Biographical note

Sharon Hart-Green has taught Hebrew and Yiddish literature at the University of Toronto. Her short stories, poems, translations, and articles have appeared in a number of publications. Come Back for Me is her first novel.