Journey to Nowhere: One Woman Looks for the Promised Land
- ISBN-10
- 1847080197
- ISBN-13
- 9781847080196
- Series
- Journey to Nowhere
- Pages
- 184
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Author
- Eva Figes
Description
"In the spring of 1939 six-year-old Eva Unger [now Figes, author] came to settle in London. Her middle-class Jewish family had managed to escape Nazi Germany, leaving behind friends, relatives and their penniless housemaid, Edith. Ten years later, Edith wrote from Palestine, asking for her old job back ... In the months that followed she told the curious schoolgirl Eva what had happened to her in the intervening years." In Journey to Nowhere, [author] tells Edith's story. "She describes Edith's miraculous survival in wartime Berlin, her post-war life in the city's ruins and how she was persuaded to emigrate to Palestine. There Edith found herself treated with bitter contempt as a despised German Jew, and at the centre of another war, between Arabs and Jews."--Jacket.
