Deze auteur verkent de complexiteit van het moderne leven met een indringend inzicht in de menselijke psyche. Hun schrijven wordt gekenmerkt door scherpe intelligentie en een diep begrip van de thema's die onze individuele reizen verweven in het grotere tapijt van de menselijke ervaring. Lezers ontdekken in hun werk een rijk palet aan emoties en ideeën die nog lang nagalmen nadat de laatste pagina is omgeslagen. Het vermogen van de auteur om de essentie van de menselijke zoektocht naar betekenis en verbinding vast te leggen, is werkelijk opmerkelijk.
A memoir of events in Czechoslovakia surrounding the infamous Slansky Trial, in which the author's young husband was among 11 executed Jews, victims of Stalinism, who were "rehabilitated" years after they were hanged.
"I set out to find a group of people who, like me, were possessed by a history they had never lived." The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Helen Epstein traveled from America to Europe to Israel, searching for one vital thin in common: their parent's persecution by the Nazis. She found: • Gabriela Korda, who was raised by her parents as a German Protestant in South America; • Albert Singerman, who fought in the jungles of Vietnam to prove that he, too, could survive a grueling ordeal; • Deborah Schwartz, a Southern beauty queen who—at the Miss America pageant, played the same Chopin piece that was played over Polish radio during Hitler's invasion. Epstein interviewed hundreds of men and women coping with an extraordinary legacy. In each, she found shades of herself.
What makes some societies more vulnerable to AIDS than others? Why is the HIV epidemic so severe in Africa and why have governments and NGOs largely failed to halt its progress? Epstein goes to the heart of why epidemics spread and what we should be doing to stop them.
After the death of her mother, author and journalist Helen Epstein set out to uncover her mother's past and to learn more about her grandmother and great- grandmother, victims of the Holocaust. The result is this compelling biography, both a chronicle of three generations of women and a social history of Czechoslovakia's Jews.
Memoáry americké novinářky a spisovatelky Helen Epstein odhalují intimní tajemství v kontextu dramatické českožidovské minulosti rodičů a amerických poměrů. Hledání tajemství, které autorka tuší, že se odehrálo v jejím dětství a ovlivnilo ji na celý život. Autobiografie „O čem se nemluví“ je třetím dílem Helen Epstein o mezigeneračním přenosu traumatu, autorka tak navazuje na „Děti Holocaustu“ o životě druhé generace a na „Nalezenou minulost“ o moravských kořenech své matky.