When Time Stopped : A Memoir of my Father's War and What Remains (Record no. 63077)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9781471179419
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 940.53180
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Neumann, Ariana
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title When Time Stopped : A Memoir of my Father's War and What Remains
Statement of responsibility Ariana Neumann
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication London
Name of publisher Simon & Schuster
Year of publication 2020
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages 353 Pages
Other physical details 23x15 cm
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520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc A brilliantly written memoir by a Venezuelan-born British journalist that skilfully uncovers the secrets of her father's past: the annihilation of his family in the Holocaust, his courageous choice to build his life anew and his extraordinary commitment to hiding the truth from his own family. There is a Czech saying - The darkest shadow is beneath the candle. As a little girl growing up in a flourishing 1970s Venezuela, Ariana wanted to peer into the shadows and be a detective. With no real mysteries to solve, her childish curiosity led her to focus on the enigma of her own father, a brilliant industrialist who appeared to be the epitome of success and strength but who would wake in the night screaming in a language that she didn't recognize. Then, one day, she found an old identity document bearing his picture but someone else's name. Her father never spoke about the past. This was the first of many clues that she was to uncover in the years to come. They led her to a box of papers that he had left for her when he died in 2001. The box contained wartime documents that opened the door to her father's past and finally gave her the permission he had long withheld to step through it. Ariana meticulously uncovers the astonishing truth of her father's extraordinary escape from Nazi-occupied Prague and inevitable deportation to the camps. Her painstaking investigation leads her across Europe and reveals his unlikely and inspiring choice to assume a fake identity and live out the war undercover, spying for the allies in Berlin-deep in the `darkest shadow'. In producing a powerful piece of literary detective work and an important story of survival against the odds, she comes to know the family that had been lost and, ultimately, her own beloved father.
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Topical Term Families
-- Newman family
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Koha item type Books
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    Non-fiction Garrison Public Library Multan Garrison Public Library Multan General Stacks 2020-12-31 CRV/174/GHQ/GPLM 2110.00 940.53180 N477T 2020 65731 Books

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