Holocaust Books

Résumé du livre

Three novels in the Venus as She Ages collection discuss how the holocaust has carried over onto the children of survivors. THE BED YOU LIE IN follows a couple, both adult children of survivors, who act out their generational pain on each other but, strangely, by feeling the pain, they both are freed. Since they're Jewish, they're often funny. WRITE, SHE SAID - follows a write narrator who goes to live in Vienna with her two literary icons, Marguerite Duras and Jean Rhys. She learns a bit about her abandoning mother in this story and about how these two writers lived through the war. MAGNETISM -A woman in her sixties wants to still have "juice" in her life and is moved by a survivor who lives above her who represents for her incredible "juice" and strength in going forward.