Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War

by Ian Buruma

Book Overview

A family history of surpassing beauty and power: Ian Buruma's account of his grandparents' enduring love through the terror and separation of two world wars During the almost six years England was at war with Nazi Germany, Winifred and Bernard Schlesinger, Ian Buruma's grandparents, and the film director John Schlesinger's parents, were, like so many others, thoroughly sundered from each other. Their only recourse was to write letters back and forth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143109952
• ISBN13: 9780143109952
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 7.9"