More Than I Love My Life - Leicester Arena

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Hardback More Than I Love My Life

Author: Grossman, David

Publication year: 2021

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Media Hardback

Classification: F

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 2021

Resource type: Physical

ISBN: 1787332934 9781787332935

Notes:

On a kibbutz in Israel in 2008, Gili is celebrating the ninetieth birthday of her grandmother Vera, the adored matriarch of a sprawling and tight-knit family. But festivities are interrupted by the arrival of Nina: the iron-willed daughter who rejected Vera's care; and the absent mother who abandoned Gili when she was still a baby. Nina's return to the family after years of silence precipitates an epic journey from Israel to the desolate island of Goli Otok, formerly part of Yugoslavia. It was here, five decades earlier, that Vera was held and tortured as a political prisoner. And it is here that the three women will finally come to terms with the terrible moral dilemma that Vera faced, and that permanently altered the course of their lives.