No Return Address: A Memoir of Displacement Tapa dura - 2000
de Anca Vlasopolos
A poet, novelist, and professor of English recounts her childhood in communist Romania and her coming of age in Western Europe and the United States. Photos.
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THIS EXQUISITELY CRAFTED MEMOIR follows one woman's tumultuous journey from her childhood in communist Romania to her coming of age in the United States. Filled with anecdotes and incidents with family and friends in several countries on two continents, the book vividly re-creates the experiences of new immigrants to America -- especially the experience of the latest wave of newcomers from the former Socialist bloc.
Anca Vlasopolos writes movingly of the hyphenated, ambiguous identities assumed by displaced people; the purgatory in which immigrants await transfer to another country; the mysterious nostalgia for places and events dimly recalled. Throughout, she describes the constant search for a place truly to call home. Vlasopolos chronicles years of limbo in Brussels and Paris as well as her settlement in Detroit, Michigan, where she will never feel completely at home. Even the country of her birth, with its endemic anti-Semitism and xenophobia, does not serve as a home or even match the scenes of her nostalgic longing.
The true heroine of the story is Vlasopolos's mother, an Auschwitz survivor who raised young Anca herself after the death of her husband, a Greek political dissident. This extraordinary woman's spirit, sharp intelligence, sense of humor, and flair for fashioning the appearance of opulence in the face of poverty provide some of the most arresting moments in the book. The deep attachment and strong mutual support between mother and daughter come through clearly in Vlasopolos's moving tribute.
Vividly describing the smells and tastes of delicate pastries and salmon caviar and cagey exertions to hide rare indulgences from the authorities; her accidental discovery ofher Jewish identity and the euphemisms to cover the fact of her father's death; a meeting of the Communists' censorship committee and her difficulties in obtaining an American library card -- Vlasopolos has composed an extraordinary and profound addition to the literature of exile.
Detalles
- Título No Return Address: A Memoir of Displacement
- Autor Anca Vlasopolos
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Edición First Edition
- Páginas 240
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Columbia University Press, New York
- Fecha de publicación 2000-11-07
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780231121309 / 023112130X
- Peso 1.14 libras (0.52 kg)
- Dimensiones 9 x 6 x 0.69 pulgadas (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.75 cm)
- Nivel de lectura 1400
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Temas
- Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
- Ethnic Orientation: Latino
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Middle West - Social life and customs, English teachers - United States
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 99098189
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- Choice, 04/01/2001, Page 1458
- Library Journal, 10/01/2000, Page 116
- Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2001, Page 173
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