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The Suitcase

Six Attempts to Cross a Border

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*Winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize 2022*

'This is family history at its best... the words fizz off the page and flutter in the mind' Sunday Times


If you open that suitcase you'll never close it again.

Ten years ago, Frances Stonor Saunders was handed an old suitcase filled with her father's papers. Her father's life had been a study in borders - exiled from Romania during the war, to Turkey then Egypt and eventually Britain, and ultimately to the borderless territory of Alzheimer's. The unopened suitcase seems to represent everything that had made her father unknowable to her in life.
So begins a captivating exploration of history, memory and geography, as Frances Stoner Saunders decides to unpick her family's past.


Publisher: Random House

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  • ISBN: 9781473552722
  • Release date: June 3, 2021

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781473552722
  • File size: 7832 KB
  • Release date: June 3, 2021

0 of 1 copy available
Wait time: About 4 weeks

Formats

OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

Languages

English

*Winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize 2022*

'This is family history at its best... the words fizz off the page and flutter in the mind' Sunday Times


If you open that suitcase you'll never close it again.

Ten years ago, Frances Stonor Saunders was handed an old suitcase filled with her father's papers. Her father's life had been a study in borders - exiled from Romania during the war, to Turkey then Egypt and eventually Britain, and ultimately to the borderless territory of Alzheimer's. The unopened suitcase seems to represent everything that had made her father unknowable to her in life.
So begins a captivating exploration of history, memory and geography, as Frances Stoner Saunders decides to unpick her family's past.



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