Title: The clothes on their backs
Subtitle: a novel
First published: 2008
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Jewish women, Nieces, Uncles, Hungarians, Fiction, family life, England, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Jews, fiction, Brothers and sisters, fiction, London (england), fiction
Places: England, London (England)
LC classification: PR6057.R316 C56 2008