The Clothes On Their Backs
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781844085415 (1844085414)
Publisher: Virago Press (UK)
Pages no: 293
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Jewish,
Family,
Contemporary,
Modern,
Hungary
Set in the nineteen seventies, The Clothes On Their Backs is a novel about identity. Vivien, the narrator is the daughter of Hungarian Jewish refugees who have spent their time since coming to London trying to achieve anonymous respectability. Both their anonymity and their respectability are threat...
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