GOLIGER, GABRIELLA

Song of Ascent

Vancouver: Raincoast Pub, 2001. First Edition. Soft Cover. 5 x 8 x 1/2 " 1551923742 Signed by Author 2001 Softcover 1st, SIGNED by author on title page ... Brand new from publisher ... Never read, Never opened except by author to sign ... slight shelf bend to one corner cover ... 177 pages ... in English only ... Goliger's finely-honed and exacting prose warrants early praise for these evocative stories ... recounting the troubled lives of Ernst and Hannah Birnbaum, displaced German Jews who flee Hitler but cannot escape the shadow of the Holocaust ... Their uprooted existence takes them from Europe to the Holy Land and eventually Montreal where they attempt to create a shelter for their children, Rachel and Avi, despite a strained marriage and all they have lost ... This new generation struggles with the inherited alienation that accompanies exile, striving to both protect and escape theri vulnerable elders ... Adopting the voices of various members of the immediate and exten ded family, Goliger poignantly explores the tense dialogue between present and past ... " Song of Ascent " ... by Gabriella Goliger ... 2001 softcover book, published by Raincoast Publishing, Vancouver ... in English only ... Signed by the author ... ***. New .

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Book number: 4114

Catalogue: Fiction Novels - Modern & First Editions

Keywords: Gabriella Gabrielle Goliger Holocaust German Jews Jewry Canadian fiction writer authors signed first edition Judaica Holocaust

GOLIGER, GABRIELLA,

Song of Ascent.

Vancouver, Raincoast Books, 2000. First Edition, 8VO, 177 pp. NF in Wraps
¶ Lightest of wear.

-- Neil Williams, Bookseller

Book number: 19017

Catalogue: Canadian Literature

Keywords: Canadian Literature 1551923742