The Clothes on their backs
By: Linda Grant
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Clipper Large Print
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leicester [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9781407424743
Subjects: Large type books; Jewish women; Fiction; Hungarians; Uncles; Nieces
Description: In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears, dressed in a mohair suit, with a diamond watch on his wrist and a girl in a leopard-skin hat on his arm. Why is Uncle Sandor so violently unwelcome in her parents' home? This is a novel about survival both banal and heroic and a young woman who discovers the complications, even betrayals, that inevitably accompany the fierce desire to live.