Home Is Somewhere Else: Autobiography in Two Voices

by Desider Furst and Lilian R. Furst

Book Overview

Following the Nazi annexation of Austria in March of 1938, Desider Furst, his wife, and his daughter suddenly found themselves hunted outlaws, holders of a German passport branded with a red "J" for Jewish. They escaped from Vienna and eventually settled in England, where they spent the war years as "enemy aliens." In 1971 they emigrated once more, this time voluntarily, to the United States. Home is Somewhere Else is a dual-voice, autobiographical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 079141969X
• ISBN13: 9780791419694
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Home is Somewhere Else

A unique approach to the genre of "escapee" literature. Accounts of wartime experiences of the Furst family vascillate between now late father, Desider, and daughter, Lilian, and are centered around the cities which represent the changing fortunes of the family. This is a personal family drama that floats along the borders of history and draws the reader into a subdued and melancholic vision of the post-war Jewish family.