06316cam a2200925 4500 254657992 TxAuBib 20160104120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780804140652 0804140650 B00M60RL0E Amazon 5828e570-bf4f-4842-b7ed-e606234bccd0 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 236974 1895578 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Richmond Mouillot, Miranda. A Fifty-Year Silence [Libby eBook] : Love, War, and a Ruined House in France. Crown/Archetype, 2015. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 4344kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. wartime experiences. Holocaust survivor. archival materials. historical memory. nuremberg trials. South of France. self discovery. family secrets. heartbreaking. grandchildren. Nazi-occupied. Estrangement. relationship. Grandparents. refugee camp. grandmother. generations. grandfather. countryside. mysterious. love story. struggles. narrative. memories. Intimacy. husband. Honesty. divided. Letters. village. stories. legacy. future. bitter. burden. memoir. truth. Nazi. WWII. past. ruin. Wife. jew. HTML:A young woman moves across an ocean to uncover the truth about her grandparents' mysterious estrangement and pieces together the extraordinary story of their wartime experiences In 1948, after surviving World War II by escaping Nazi-occupied France for refugee camps in Switzerland, the author's grandparents, Anna and Armand, bought an old stone house in a remote, picturesque village in the South of France. Five years later, Anna packed her bags and walked out on Armand, taking the typewriter and their children. Aside from one brief encounter, the two never saw or spoke to each other again, never remarried, and never revealed what had divided them forever. A Fifty-Year Silence is the deeply involving account of Miranda Richmond Mouillot's journey to find out what happened between her grandmother, a physician, and her grandfather, an interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials, who refused to utter his wife's name aloud after she left him. To discover the roots of their embittered and entrenched silence, Miranda abandons her plans for the future and moves to their stone house, now a crumbling ruin; immerses herself in letters, archival materials, and secondary sources; and teases stories out of her reticent, and declining, grandparents. As she reconstructs how Anna and Armand braved overwhelming odds and how the knowledge her grandfather acquired at Nuremberg destroyed their relationship, Miranda wrestles with the legacy of trauma, the burden of history, and the complexities of memory. She also finds herself learning how not only to survive but to thrive -- making a home in the village and falling in love. With warmth, humor, and rich, evocative details that bring her grandparents' outsize characters and their daily struggles vividly to life, A Fifty-Year Silence is a heartbreaking, uplifting love story spanning two continents and three generations. From the Hardcover edition.. HTML:"Eloquent and engrossing....Miranda Richmond Mouillot has imbibed her tale with the frisson of a detective story while gently introducing us to the charm and hidden pain of her extraordinary grandparents... A totally captivating journey that will keep you rapt from start to finish." – Australian Women's Weekly "Written with an almost poetic transcendence of time, place and memory, this moving memoir chronicles an amazing circle of life. No fairy tale, it is as epic as the times in which Anna and Armand lived and the love they inspired.". HTML:BookPage. HTML:"The corrosive effects of the Holocaust--upon those directly involved and generations thereafter--are illustrated vividly in this candid saga of familial love and misunderstanding, which will resonate with readers of World War II history as well as those who appreciate accounts of ancestral sleuthing in the vein of Anne Sinclair's My Grandfather's Gallery: A Family Memoir of Art and War and Sarah Wildman's Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind.". HTML:Library Journal. "As Mouillot upends her own life to investigate [her grandparents'], she begins to understand the lengths to which people will go to protect their fragile dignity and comes to recognize the power of memories that both comfort and torment wounded souls. A vibrant, earnest, and profound tribute.". HTML:Booklist. "A moving family history researched with dedication and completed with a granddaughter's love.". HTML:Kirkus Reviews. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2016-03-05 20:00:03. http://westtexas.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=5828e570-bf4f-4842-b7ed-e606234bccd0 https://samples.overdrive.com/fifty-year-silence?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/fifty-year-silence?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/fifty-year-silence?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) CRSBY