Gila Lustiger

A paperweight, newspapers, a doll – inspired by personal objects, the first-person narrator of this autobiographical novel follows in the remembered footsteps of her parents, grandparents and close relatives. They are Central European Jews, victims of history, saying nothing, but having a brilliant memory. The author uses her imagination to fill the gaps in the family chronicle. In a host of episodes that closely link the tragic and the comic, the history of European Jewry unfolds alongside what is often a painful private search for suppressed memories.


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Gila Lustiger was born in Frankfurt/Main in 1963. She studied German language and literature and comparative literature in Jerusalem and has worked as an editor in Tel Aviv. Since 1989, she has been an editor with publishers Albin Michel in Paris. She wrote her first novel “Bestandsaufnahme” in 1995. Gila Lustiger lives with her family in Paris.