Somewhere Else
Recommended by Miriam Margolyes
2nd Edition
Published on 6. September 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-1-910895-95-5 (ISBN)
Description
'Jenni Daiches has astonishingly re-created a lost world... I wept and laughed and wished I had written it.'
MIRIAM MARGOLYES
'An urgent exploration of the fragility and beauty of our shared humanity, here and elsewhere.'
HANNAH HOLTSCHNEIDER, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
About the book
Rosa Roshkin is five years old when her family are murdered in a pogrom and she is forced to leave behind everything she knows with only a suitcase of clothes and her father's violin.
An epic generational novel about womanhood and Judaeo-Scottish experience across two World Wars, the creation of Israel and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Jenni Daiches's Somewhere Else explores today's most difficult and urgent questions, not least of which: how to find identity in displacement.
MIRIAM MARGOLYES
'An urgent exploration of the fragility and beauty of our shared humanity, here and elsewhere.'
HANNAH HOLTSCHNEIDER, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
About the book
Rosa Roshkin is five years old when her family are murdered in a pogrom and she is forced to leave behind everything she knows with only a suitcase of clothes and her father's violin.
An epic generational novel about womanhood and Judaeo-Scottish experience across two World Wars, the creation of Israel and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Jenni Daiches's Somewhere Else explores today's most difficult and urgent questions, not least of which: how to find identity in displacement.
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Edition
Reprint with Prize badges
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 125 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
352 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-910895-95-5 (9781910895955)
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Person
Jenni Daiches (also published as Jenni Calder) was born in the USA and has lived in Scotland since 1971. She is the author of three previous novels and two collections of poetry. As Jenni Calder, she has published biography and literary and social history. She is a previous president and current trustee of Scottish PEN.