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THE PLUM TREES

Victoria Shorr

A poignant novel about one woman's quest to recover her family's history, and a story of loss and survival during the Holocaust.

In the first decades of the twenty-first century, Consie, an American woman, stumbles upon a family letter, sent from Germany in 1945. The letter contains staggering news: Consie's great-uncle Hermann, who was transported to Auschwitz with his wife and three daughters, might have escaped. Spurred by the discovery and gripped with questions, she sets out to unravel the truth. Most of her family are dead, so Consie scours oral testimonies, historical records, and her own fleeting memories. Moving from their happy home in Czechoslovakia to Hungary, where they were captured, to their internment at the concentration camps, The Plum Trees reconstructs in astonishing, poignant detail the lives of Hermann, his wife, and their daughters from the days before the German occupation of Czechoslovakia through the liberation of Auschwitz and the end of World War II. Inspired by the author's family history, The Plum Trees is a powerful, intimate reckoning with the past. Victoria Shorr is author of the novels The Plum Trees, Midnight, and Backlands. She cofounded the Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles and the Pine Ridge Girls' School in South Dakota, the first independent, culturally based college-prep school for girls on a Native reservation in America. She lives in New York, New York.

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Book Published 2021-03-09 by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. - New York (USA)

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A a powerful story of familial history and the hold that the past has over us today. Read more...

This moving account makes clear the need to remember the horrors of war.

[a] thought-provoking quest to understand the meaning of evil, guilt, and survival. Read more...

Victoria Shorr's poignant novel, The Plum Trees, is less fiction than a reckoning with the past. Shorr tells a story of the evils that confronted millions of wartime Jews through the prism of one family's desperate attempt to survive and the narrator's equally desperate effort to find them decades later.

In Victoria Shorr's searing novel, horror encompasses the characters in ways unknown to others less afflicted as they struggle to understand all that has been sacrificed and lost, at last finding solace in their uncompromising refusal to allow the crimes of the past to diminish and defeat them.

Written with urgency, elegance, and grace, Shorr's novel is a deeply moving account of a family's suffering.

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