The silver music box
By: Mina Baites ; translated by Alison Layland
Contributors: Layland, Alison, translator
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781542048484
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Adoptees; Families; Jews; Inheritance and succession; Music box; Holocaust survivors; Fiction
Work titles: Silberne spieldose
Description: "A captivating cross-generational novel from German author Mina Baites about a Jewish family divided by World War II and an inheritance with the power to bring them back together. 1914. For Paul, with love. Jewish silversmith Johann Blumenthal engraved those words on his most exquisite creation, a singing filigree bird inside a tiny ornamented box. He crafted this treasure for his young son before leaving to fight in a terrible war to honor his beloved country--a country that would soon turn against his own family. A half century later, Londoner Lilian Morrison inherits the box after the death of her parents. Though the silver is tarnished and dented, this much-loved treasure is also a link to an astonishing past. With the keepsake is a letter from Lilian's mother, telling her daughter for the first time that she was adopted. Too young to remember, Lilian was rescued from a Germany in the grips of the Holocaust. Now only she can trace what happened to a family who scattered to the reaches of the world, a family forced to choose between their heritage and their dreams for the future" -- Page [4] cover.
Notes: Translated from the German.

"Previously published as  Die Silberne Spieldose by Amazon Publishing in Germany in 2017" -- T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.