This volume engages with memory of the Holocaust as expressed in literature, film, and other media. It focuses on the cultural memory of the second and third generations of Holocaust survivors, while also taking into view those who were children during the Nazi period. Language loss, language acquisition, and the multiple needs of translation are recurrent themes for all of the authors discussed. By bringing together authors and scholars (often both) from different generations, countries, ...

Night Comes Down is set in a remote town in the borderlands between England and Wales in the early years of Queen Victoria's reign.Grace Matthews, the only child of the town's learned doctor, loves the woods, the valleys, and the streams in her quiet corner of the world. She is a loner and spends as much of her life as she can outdoors—her desire to be in nature only curbed by her father's unceasing wish to burden her with chores after the untimely death of her beloved mot...

En la habitación de un hospital de Nueva York, el especialista en arte Charley Bernstein conoce a Christopher, así apodado por la calle en la que apareció tirado e inconsciente. Sin testigos de su accidente ni recuerdos de quién es, la identidad de Christopher es un misterio en cuya resolución Charley está decidido a colaborar. Mientras ambos buscan el pasado de Christopher, Charley rastrea la pista de su propia historia familiar a través del diario de su tío-abuelo, escrito en un campo de...