A Woman in Amber : Healing the Trauma of War and Exile - Hardcover

Nesaule, Agate

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1569470464 ISBN 13: 9781569470466

Publisher: Soho Press, 1995

Synopsis

The author recounts her childhood in war-ravaged Europe, where she and her family fled their native Latvia only to be captured by Russian troops, and her arrival, penniless, in America, where she won a scholarship to Indiana University.

About this title

About the Author:

Agate Nesaule is currently a professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

From Library Journal:

A woman in amber is one trapped and preserved in her past. Nesaule (literature and women's studies, Univ. of Wisconsin) tells a moving story to promote the reader's understanding and her own healing. As a child in Latvia, she endured the terror and dislocation of World War II at the hands of both Soviets and Germans, lived in a postwar refugee camp, and became an immigrant to the American Midwest, establishing a life there shaped by survivor's guilt and a sense of victimization. Integral to her life are family relationships, especially estrangement from her mother, stemming from the war years and the author's own unhappy marriage. In middle age, Nesaule at last comes to terms with her past, builds a new life, and offers her audience a well-written and insightful memoir. For subject collections and general readers.
Rena Fowler, Humboldt State Univ., Arcata, Cal.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Soho Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1569470464
• ISBN 13: 9781569470466
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288