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092 0  Roman|bengelska 
100 1  Petrowskaja, Katja,|d1970-|4aut 
245 10 Maybe Esther :|ba family story /|cKatja Petrowskaja ; 
       translated from the German by Shelley Frisch 
250    First Harper Perennial edition 
264  1 New York :|bHARPER PERENNIAL,|c2019 
264  4 |c2014 
300    248 sidor|c21 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    "First published in Germany as Vielleicht Esther by 
       Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin in 2014"--Title page verso 
520    "An inventive, unique, and extraordinarily moving literary
       debut that pieces together the fascinating story of one 
       woman's family across twentieth-century Russia, Ukraine, 
       Poland, and Germany. Katja Petrowskaja wanted to create a 
       kind of family tree, charting relatives who had scattered 
       across multiple countries and continents. Her idea 
       blossomed into this striking and highly original work of 
       narrative nonfiction, an account of her search for meaning
       within the stories of her ancestors. In a series of short 
       meditations, Petrowskaja delves into family legends, 
       introducing a remarkable cast of characters: Judas Stern, 
       her great-uncle, who shot a German diplomatic attaché in 
       1932 and was sentenced to death; her grandfather Semyon, 
       who went underground with a new name during the Bolshevik 
       Revolution in Russia, forever splitting their branch of 
       the family from the rest; her grandmother Rosa, who ran an
       orphanage in the Urals for deaf-mute Jewish children; her 
       Ukrainian grandfather Vasily, who disappeared during World
       War II and reappeared without explanation forty-one years 
       later--and settled back into the family as if he'd never 
       been gone; and her great-grandmother, whose name may have 
       been Esther, who alone remained in Kiev and was killed by 
       the Nazis. How do you talk about what you can't know, how 
       do you bring the past to life? To answer this complex 
       question, Petrowskaja visits the scenes of these events, 
       reflecting on a fragmented and traumatized century and 
       bringing to light family figures who threaten to drift 
       into obscurity."|c-- Publisher's website 
600 10 Petrowskaja, Katja,|d1970-|xFamily 
648  7 1939-1945|2fast 
650  0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 
650  0 Jews|zUkraine|vBiography 
650  0 Jewish families|vBiography 
650  7 Familjer|2sao 
650  7 Judiska släkter|2sao 
650  7 Judar|2sao 
650  7 Mor- och farföräldrar|2sao 
650  7 Families.|2fast 
650  7 Jewish families.|2fast 
650  7 Jews.|2fast 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY|xLiterary Figures.|2bisacsh 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY|xPersonal Memoirs.|2bisacsh 
650  7 HISTORY|xJewish.|2bisacsh 
651  7 Ukraina|2sao 
651  7 Ukraine.|2fast 
655  7 Romaner|2saogf 
655  7 Biografiska skildringar|2saogf 
700 1  Frisch, Shelley Laura|4trl