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'Sometimes your memories are not your own.'
Just as Art Spiegelman's Maus presented a dramatic new framework in which to view the Holocaust, Mendel's Daughter combines an unforgettable true story with elegant, haunting illustrations to shed new light on one of history's darkest periods. In 1989 Martin Lemelman videotaped his mother, Gusta, as she opened up about her childhood in 1930's Poland and her eventual escape from Nazi persecution. Now, in Mendel's Daughter, Lemelman lovingly transcribes his mother's harrowing testimony in her own words. He brings her narrative to life with his own powerful black and white drawings, interspersed with reproductions of actual photos, documents and other relics from that unsettled era. The result is a wholly original, authentic and moving account of hope and survival in a time of despair.
Mendel's Daughter opens with a picture of shtetl life, filled with homey images that evoke the richness of foods and flowers, of family and friends and Jewish tradition. Soon, however, Gusta's girlhood is cut short as her family becomes witness to the rise of Hitler, rumours of war, invasion, occupation, roundups and pogroms. We follow Gusta into flight, hiding and survival: into the unfolding uncertainty of those terrible times.
As solemn and as hopeful as a prayer, Mendel's Daughter is Martin Lemelman's testament to Gusta's bravery and a celebration of her perseverance. The devastatingly simple power of a mother's words and a son's illustrations combine to create a work that is both intensely personal and universally resonant.
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'Lemelman has much of value to say.'
-- Literary Review
`Mendel's Daughter strides bravely -rashly - into Maus's
footprints and, against all odds, succeeds.' -- UPSTREET UPSTREET UPSTREET, Rev by Myles Quin
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-- Literary Review
`Mendel's Daughter strides bravely -rashly - into Maus's
footprints and, against all odds, succeeds.' -- UPSTREET UPSTREET UPSTREET, Rev by Myles Quin
A haunting, immensely moving graphic novel about one family's experience of the Holocaust.
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- PublisherJonathan Cape
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0224078569
- ISBN 13 9780224078566
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages240
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