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    House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family
    House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family
    House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family
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    House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family

    Written by Hadley Freeman

    Narrated by Hadley Freeman

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    Writer Hadley Freeman investigates her family’s secret history in this “exceptional” (The Washington Post) “masterpiece” (The Daily Telegraph) uncovering a story that spans a century, two World Wars, and three generations.

    Hadley Freeman knew her grandmother Sara lived in France just as Hitler started to gain power, but rarely did anyone in her family talk about it. Long after her grandmother’s death, she found a shoebox tucked in the closet containing photographs of her grandmother with a mysterious stranger, a cryptic telegram from the Red Cross, and a drawing signed by Picasso.

    This discovery sent Freeman on a decade-long quest to uncover the significance of these keepsakes, taking her from Picasso’s archives in Paris to a secret room in a farmhouse in Auvergne to Long Island to Auschwitz. Freeman pieces together the puzzle of her family’s past, discovering more about the lives of her grandmother and her three brothers, Jacques, Henri, and Alex. Their stories sometimes typical, sometimes astonishing—reveal the broad range of experiences of Eastern European Jews during the Holocaust.

    This “frightening, inspiring, and cautionary” (Kirkus Reviews) family saga is filled with extraordinary twists, vivid characters, and famous cameos, illuminating the Jewish and immigrant experience in the World War II era. Reviewers have asked: “is there a better book about being Jewish?” (The Daily Telegraph) Addressing themes of assimilation, identity, and home, House of Glass is “a triumph” (The Bookseller) and a powerful story about the past that echoes issues that remain relevant today.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateMar 24, 2020
    ISBN9781797104812
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    Hadley Freeman

    Hadley Freeman is a staff writer at the Sunday Times. She worked for more than 20 years at the Guardian and her writing has appeared in many publications. Her previous book, House of Glass, was a Sunday Times bestseller and has been published around the world.

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    • 1/5
      The narrator speaks too quickly and this ruins the book
    • 2/5
      I wanted to hear the story of the family not listen to the authors lecture especially her ludicrous example of a right wing would-be politician calked Farage. He could not even garner enough votes to save his deposit when he stood for parliamentary election. He is reviled and disliked by both public and press . The preaching is a huge irritation and the narration too fast and frankly toneless.
    • 5/5
      This book was really fantastic... it was a story of family, history and sacrifice... Intensely personal while also a commentary on world affairs. It made me think about my own life choices, while also giving me a deeper understanding of Jewish history and culture... and the effects that history still has on the world today. This is a story that is so much larger than the Glass family, and yet has so much impact because it's so personal. Read it!
    • 5/5
      A great book and so glad I read it and the parallels of today in America but I want to say shame on France .... this was quite literally going through a grandparents attic and finding grandpas old Nazi uniform and it’s surprising and not in a good way, and actually quite disgusting. As a history buff I had heard things about being largely anti Semitic but this is on a whole different level .....
    • 5/5
      I couldn’t put the book down. The story of how the Glass family survived two world wars where Jews were targets of political discrimination and extermination.