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In paradise / Peter Matthiessen.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: PS3563.A8584 I6 2014

Overview

Summary: "From the two-time National Book Award winning author of The Snow Leopard and Shadow Country, a short, powerful novel about an American professor of Holocaust Studies who, over the course of a weeklong spiritual retreat at Auschwitz, is forced to grapple with his own past and a family secret: the Jewish mother abandoned to her doom by his Gentile father"-- Provided by publisher.
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Matthiessen, Peter.
Published: New York : Riverhead Books, A member of Penguin Group (USA), 2014

Physical Details

Language: English
ISBN: 9781594633171
1594633177
Physical Description: 246 pages ; 25 cm

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Teachers--Fiction. Jewish women--Fiction. Family secrets--Fiction. Nazi concentration camps--Fiction. Internment camps--Fiction. Fiction.

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