Book description
In 1959 13-year-old Eva Hoffman left her home in Cracow, Poland for a
new life in America. This memoir evokes with deep feeling the sense of
uprootendess and exile created by this disruption, something which has
been the experience of tens of thousands of people this century.
Her autobiography is profoundly personal but also tells one of the
most universal and important narratives of twentieth century history:
the story of Jewish post-war experience and the tragedies and
discoveries born of cultural displacement.
Eva Hoffman was born in Cracow, Poland and emigrated to America at
the age of thirteen. The recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, the
Whiting Award and an award from the American Academy and Institute of
Arts and Letters, she currently lives in London.
