Description
After the First World War’s shadow falls across Europe, Sybil Ross—born to a Jewish furrier in Liverpool and his German wife—grows up amid shifting borders, fragile loyalties, and the quiet pressures of survival. Beginning in the forest near her home in Riga just before the war begins, her life unfolds through upheaval and displacement, tracing how love, identity, and belonging are tested when history turns violent. As Sybil’s journey carries her toward the edge of America, she confronts the cost of reinvention and the moral weight of the choices that promise safety. With lyrical, emotionally precise storytelling, Linda Grant evokes the intimate human stakes behind large-scale catastrophe, illuminating themes of family, migration, and the enduring search for a place to call home.
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paperback
Pan Macmillan
Published Jun 6, 1997
403 pages
ISBN: 9780330337915
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First Published
1997
Language
eng
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