After the deluge; An elegiac family memoir summons up the storms of 20th-century European history, says Gavin Jacobson

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  • Author(s): By:says Gavin Jacobson
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    Financial Times (London, England), October 21, 2017 News 01, p. 9 4pp
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    • Abstract:
      The past few years have witnessed the publication of numerous intergenerational memoirs by prominent writers and academics. Matthew Spender's A House in St John's Wood (2015) confronted the eccentricities of his childhood. Ian Buruma's Their Promised Land (2016) spoke of his Jewish grandparents' relationship to Britain during the two world wars...