The sound of breaking glass
By: Kirsten Warner
Publisher: Mākaro Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Wellington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780994137876
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Children of Holocaust survivors; Fiction
Description: "Christel is at shattering point. She’s got two small children, her job in reality television is super high stress, she’s an activist with Women Against Surplus Plastic and now she’s being stalked. To top it off her protest milk bottle sculpture appears to have come to life like the golem of Jewish folklore and is reviving characters from a past she can hardly bear to confront.  Christel is Second Generation – her father was a Holocaust survivor and a refugee to New Zealand after the war – and she cannot focus on the problems in front of her without dealing with an inheritance th​at is both​​ murky and unresolvable. And how to live with ​the secrets she begins to uncover? Set in Auckland in the 1990s"--Publisher's description.
Notes: Novel.