Nobody's Son: A Memoir

ISBN: 039335475X

Author: Slouka, Mark

Condition: New

"I have never before read anything except Nabokovs Speak, Memory that so relentlessly and shrewdly exhausted the kindness and cruelty of recollections shaping devices." -Geoffrey WolffBorn in Czechoslovakia, Mark Sloukas parents survived the Nazis only to have to escape the Communist purges after the war. Smuggled out of their own country, the newlyweds joined a tide of refugees moving from Innsbruck to Sydney to New York, dragging with them a history of blood and betrayal that their son would be born into.From World War I to the present, Slouka pieces together a remarkable story of refugees and war, displacement and denial-admitting into evidence memories, dreams, stories, the lies we inherit, and the lies we tell-in an attempt to reach his mother, the enigmatic figure at the center of the labyrinth. Her story, the revelation of her life-long burden and the forty-year love affair that might have saved her, shows the way out of the maze. 8 pages of illustrations