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Michael Moritz was born in Cardiff, Wales in 1954. A former Time journalist and regular contributor to the FT, he is the author of several books, including The Little Kingdom, the story of Apple's years as a private business. He was a partner in Sequoia Capital for 35 years and led the business between 1995 and 2012, becoming one of the most successful investors of his generation. Together with his wife, the author Harriet Heyman, he formed Crankstart in 2001 - a San Francisco-based foundation devoted to helping those who might otherwise be left behind.Ausländer casts a unique shaft of light into the darkest years of European history, and a profoundly moving, personal story of disaster and triumph unlike any other you will read.
Andrew Marr, writer and broadcaster
A book that stands alongside Edmund de Waal's The Hare with Amber Eyes and Philippe Sands's East West Street as a deeply personal immersion into the horrors of the Holocaust
- Kathryn Hughes, The Sunday Times
A magisterial act of filial piety. Michael Moritz encodes and decodes his emotional DNA - and what that means for his reading of the world now. It is rare to be invited to see our world so fully through someone else's eyes.
Neil MacGregor, former director of the British Museum and the National Gallery
The best memoirs are deeply personal but connect to the universal. ... Ausländer more than meets this mark
- Richard Waters, Financial Times
Compelling ... a shout from history that we cannot ignore right now
- Hugo Hamilton, The Irish Times
'Michael Moritz's career as a tech investor has been astoundingly successful, a classic version of the American Dream. Yet this powerful memoir is focused on his Ashkenazi Jewish roots and his enduring sense of being a "foreigner," whether growing up in gritty South Wales or reaching the top in glamorous Silicon Valley. Alienated by recent political developments on both sides of the Atlantic, he articulates a sense of homelessness that many readers will recognize. Once a journalist, he writes with elegance but also with disarming candour.'
Niall Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution, and author of The House of Rothschild
Moritz is that rare thing: a reliable journalist and witness. His book is a triumph ... A beautifully written memoir
Jewish Chronicle
When Michael Moritz was diagnosed with a genetic disease, it launched him on a bracingly honest search into his heritage. It's an inspiring and unsettling family and religious tale, but also something larger: a guide to how we all struggle to figure out what we must embrace and what we want to banish from our past.
Walter Isaacson author and biographer of Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Albert Einstein and Leonardo da Vinci
This might be one of the most important books you read this year ... poignant and powerful
The Courier
Set against the upheavals of Trump's America, this memoir offers a meditation on memory, identity and the fragility of democracy - and the author's fear of antisemitic rhetoric becoming a permanent fixture in the English-speaking world
Financial Times
Both a Holocaust story and an examination of the present
Money Week