Nobody's Son: A Memoir

by Mark Slouka

Book Overview

Born in Czechoslovakia, Mark Slouka's parents survived the Nazis only to have to escape the Communist purges after the war. Smuggled out of their own country, the newlyweds joined a tide of refugees moving from Innsbruck to Sydney to New York, dragging with them a history of blood and betrayal that their son would be born into. From World War I to the present, Slouka pieces together a remarkable story of refugees and war, displacement and denial--admitting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393292304
• ISBN13: 9780393292305
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.3"