The Listener: In the Shadow of the Holocaust

by Irene Oore

Book Overview

A reflection on how trauma is passed from generation to generation

In The Listener, a daughter receives a troubling gift: her mother's stories of surviving World War II in Poland. During the Holocaust, Irene Oore's mother escaped the death camps by concealing her Jewish identity. Those years found her constantly on the run and on the verge of starvation, living a harrowing and peripatetic existence as she struggled to keep...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889776539
• ISBN13: 9780889776531
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: University of Regina Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 6.4"