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"They were privileged people, cultured and German to the core, a family that had been in Germany three hundred years. But that couldn't save them from Hitler. Some met death in concentration camps; some committed suicide; others escaped only to find themselves just barely tolerated in a war-torn England.
From grandmother to grandsons, this clan of emigres will struggle to come to terms with a past replete with large ancestral homes, a present filled with impoverished relatives who have fled the Nazi regime, and a dubious future elsewhere.".
"Karl, the breadwinning father, dreams of an artist's footloose life; his brother, an art dealer, settles on London as home. Their aged mother, Elsa, yearns for the pre-Nazi Germany of her protected youth. Only Julia, Karl's fierce and clear-eyed wife, has her heart set on America as the place to raise her two sons, Benjamin and Jacob - to whom this exciting, brave new world is only an adventure-filled steamship voyage away."--BOOK JACKET.
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How does a German-Jewish family from London blend a past filled with ancestral homes in Germany, relatives fleeing the Nazi regime, and an intellectual life in London with the strange shores of America where they emigrate in order to take advantage of the land of opportunity? How can one balance the romanticism of a native land with a desire to fit in to the new? How can one realize what is lost and what is gained in the journey from England to America? Why, no matter how one tries to assimilate, does the past remain with us nonetheless?These are the questions that lie at the heart of What Remains, a novel imbued with both the personal experience and the considerable talent of one of America's finest writers. Told in the alternating voices of one German-Jewish family, and spanning the years 1944 to 1964, here is a novel as timeless and haunting as the immigrant experience itself.
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