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Chargement... The Lost Family (2018)par Jenna Blum
   Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  Bookish59 | Mar 31, 2023 |   https://www.bookclubcookbook.com/lost-family-supper-club/ Hamburger Walter Jinjer | Jul 19, 2021 |  ) SharleneMartinMoore | Apr 24, 2021 | De roman is verdeeld in drie delen. Elk deel wordt verteld vanuit het perspectief van één van de drie gezinsleden. Ik vond dit emotionele verhaal prachtig om te lezen en het heeft me een heel nieuw beeld gegeven van de naoorlogse jaren in Amerika. Ook erg leuk zijn de menukaarten van Masha's, het restaurant van Peter, dat vernoemd is naar zijn eerste vrouw. Ik ben blij dat de cover van dit boek prachtig past bij mijn editie van 'Het familieportret', een absolute aanrader voor in elke boekenkast. (  ) tantanel | Nov 20, 2019 |  ) ecataldi | May 26, 2019 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Fiction.
Literature.
Historical Fiction.
HTML: The Lost Family is an extraordinary read, the kind of book that makes you sob and smile, the kind that gives you hope.... It is compassionate, masterful and disturbingly contemporary."â??Tatiana de Rosnay, bestselling author of Sarah's Key The New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us creates a vivid portrait of marriage, family, and the haunting grief of World War II in this emotionally charged, beautifully rendered story that spans a generation, from the 1960s to the 1980s. In 1965 Manhattan, patrons flock to Masha's to savor its brisket bourguignon and impeccable service and to admire its dashing owner and head chef Peter Rashkin. With his movie-star good looks and tragic past, Peter, a survivor of Auschwitz, is the most eligible bachelor in town. But Peter does not care for the parade of eligible women who come to the restaurant hoping to catch his eye. He has resigned himself to a solitary life. Running Masha's consumes him, as does his terrible guilt over surviving the horrors of the Nazi death camp while his wife, Mashaâ??the restaurant's namesakeâ??and two young daughters perished. Then exquisitely beautiful June Bouquet, an up-and-coming young model, appears at the restaurant, piercing Peter's guard. Though she is twenty years his junior, the two begin a passionate, whirlwind courtship. When June unexpectedly becomes pregnant, Peter proposes, believing that beginning a new family with the woman he loves will allow him to let go of the horror of the past. But over the next twenty years, the indelible sadness of those memories will overshadow Peter, June, and their daughter Elsbeth, transforming them in shocking, heartbreaking, and unexpected ways. Jenna Blum artfully brings to the page a husband devastated by a grief he cannot name, a frustrated wife struggling to compete with a ghost she cannot banish, and a daughter sensitive to the pain of both her own family and another lost before she was born. Spanning three cinematic decades, The Lost Family is a charming, funny, and elegantly bittersweet study of the repercussions of loss and l Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Bereft and lonely, having suffered severe trauma, Peter needs the demanding pace of managing and working creatively at Masha's Restaurant to distract him from painful and disturbing memories.
June, a stunning young model, provides further distraction for Peter.
Their marriage is not what either of them expected. June is a loving wife; and tries her best to be a homemaker and mother but she fills unfulfilled. Peter is a workaholic and doesn't spend nearly enough time at home with June, and their daughter Elspeth. You would think Peter would know this is a recipe for disaster but experiencing ongoing unatriculated agony he cannot think clearly. June tries to help him but is hurt when he will not share his feelings with her.
It is only at the end when Elspeth asks her father to tell her of his early life, that he finally opens up about the burden he has carried with him for most of his life.
Wars leave behind 'generational' devastation for the wives, husbands and orphans left behind.
Novel is engaging, sad, and very slow-paced.