Somewhere Else
by Jenni Daiches
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Rosa Roshkin is five years old when her family are murdered in a pogrom and she is forced to leave behind everything she knows with only a suitcase of clothes and her father's violin. An epic generational novel about womanhood and Judaeo-Scottish experience across two World Wars, the creation of Israel and the fall of the Berlin Wall.Tags
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Jenni Calder was with the National Museum of Scotland for 23 years and has taught and lectured on literary and historical subjects in various capacities and countries. She has published widely in Scottish fiction, poetry and historical writing, including The Nine Lives of Naomi Mitchison (1997), RLS: A Life Study (1980) and Scots in Canada (2003).
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- Canonical title
- Somewhere Else
- Original publication date
- 2024
- Blurbers
- Margolyes, Miriam
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 823.00 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction By type
- LCC
- HV6248 .T7325 .T73 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Criminal classes
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- (3.33)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 3
- ASINs
- 1
