Family History of Fear: A Memoir by Agata Tuszynska (English) Paperback Book

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The affecting true story of one woman's discovery and acceptance of her history; a searing portrait of Polish Jewish life before and after the Third Reich.It wasn't until she was nineteen that Agata Tuszynska, one of Poland's most admired poets and cultural historians, discovered that she was Jewish. In this profoundly moving and resonant work, she uncovers the truth about her family's history-a mother who entered the Warsaw Ghetto at age eight and escaped just before the uprising; a father, one of five thousand Polish soldiers taken prisoner in 1939, who would become the country's most famous radio sports announcer; and other relatives and their mysterious pasts-as she tries to make sense of anti-Semitism in her country. The poignant story of one woman coming to terms with herself, Family History of Fear is also a searing portrait of Polish Jewish life, before and after Hitler's Third Reich.

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A searing and touching portrait of Polish Jewish life both before and after the Third Reich.

Author Biography

Agata Tuszynska is the author of six collections of internationally translated poetry, a biography of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Vera Gran- The Accused, and Bruno Schulz's Fiancee. Tuszynska is the recipient of the Polish PEN Club Ksawery Pruszynski Prize, a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, a Fulbright scholarship, and won the Canadian Literary Award for Holocaust Literature for Family History of Fear. Her books have been translated into a dozen languages. She lives in Toronto, Warsaw, and Paris.arles Ruas was born in China and graduated from Princeton University and the Sorbonne. He is a specialist in French and English comparative literature. He is the author of Conversations with American Writers, and has translated Michel Foucault's Death and the Labyrinth- Raymond Roussel as well as Pierre Assouline's An Artful Life- A Biography of D. H. Kahnweiler 1884-1979 and Herge- The Man Who Created Tintin. He was awarded by the French government the Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. Ruas lives in New York City.

Review

"Illuminating. . . . Tuszyska offers us vignettes and personal narratives that track the ever-shifting course of Polish-Jewish relations in the 20th century." —The Wall Street Journal"Family History of Fear is not only a memoir or work of restorative personal history. It's an act of un-erasure. Tracing her bloodlines of fear, secrecy and self-loathing, [Tuszyska] uncovers a history of survival and solidarity, of profound love." —The Globe and Mail (Toronto)"A work of fierce courage. . . . [Family History of Fear] is Tuszyska's beautiful, terrifying fight to bring her heritage alive." —The Jewish Book Council"A family saga meticulously re-created . . . A literary account of searching for one's identity." — Ryszard Kapuciski´, author of The Soccer War and Imperium"A moving memoir." —Toronto Star

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"Family History of Fear has been in me for years. Along with this secret. From the instant I found out I was not who I thought I was."

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Praise for Agata Tuszyska's FAMILY HISTORY OF FEAR "Tuszyska reveals a history that is raw, painful, and personal . . . Beautiful and terrifying . . . A work of fierce courage." -Dalia Wolfson, Jewish Book Council "A telling historical anecdote, practically overflowing with meaning . . . As much a personal history as it is a piece of psychic archeology. Tuszynska digs into her family's past, sifting through records and stories, and retracing the steps of her ancestors . . . Not only a memoir or work of restorative personal history. It's an act of un-erasure. Tracing her bloodlines of fear, secrecy and self-loathing, she uncovers a history of survival and solidarity, of profound love." -John Semley, The Globe and Mail From the Hardcover edition.

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" Family History of Fear has been in me for years. Along with this secret. From the instant I found out I was not who I thought I was."

Excerpt from Book

1 The secret This book has been in me for years. Along with this secret. From the instant I found out I was not who I thought I was. From the moment my mother told me she was Jewish. I was born in Poland, in Warsaw, several years after the war. I had blue eyes and blond hair, a source of great pride to my mother, whose own eyes and hair were dark. Today, I realize she wanted a Polish child, for fear of the fate her daughter might inherit otherwise, a fate like her own. And even though the war was officially part of the past in a new socialist Poland, where everyone was equal by definition, she resolved to obscure her origins. We are our memory. We are what we remember. And what others remember about us. Even more than that, I often find myself thinking, we are our lapses of memory. We are what we forget, what in self-

Details ISBN038572196X Author Agata Tuszynska Publisher Random House USA Inc Year 2017 ISBN-10 038572196X ISBN-13 9780385721967 Format Paperback Imprint Random House Books for Young Readers Subtitle A Memoir Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Media Book DEWEY 929.20899240438 Short Title Family History of Fear Language English UK Release Date 2017-05-16 Illustrations 36 PHOTOS IN TEXT Pages 432 Publication Date 2017-05-16 AU Release Date 2017-05-16 NZ Release Date 2017-05-16 US Release Date 2017-05-16 Audience General We've got this

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