Cet auteur explore les complexités de la vie moderne avec un aperçu pénétrant de la psyché humaine. Son écriture se caractérise par une intelligence vive et une profonde compréhension des thèmes qui tissent nos parcours individuels dans la plus grande tapisserie de l'expérience humaine. Les lecteurs découvrent dans son œuvre une riche palette d'émotions et d'idées qui résonnent longtemps après la dernière page tournée. La capacité de l'auteur à capturer l'essence de la recherche humaine de sens et de connexion est vraiment remarquable.
A memoir of events in Czechoslovakia surrounding the infamous Slansky Trial, in which the author's young husband was among 11 executed Jews, victims of Stalinism, who were "rehabilitated" years after they were hanged.
"I set out to find a group of people who, like me, were possessed by a history they had never lived." The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Helen Epstein traveled from America to Europe to Israel, searching for one vital thin in common: their parent's persecution by the Nazis. She found: • Gabriela Korda, who was raised by her parents as a German Protestant in South America; • Albert Singerman, who fought in the jungles of Vietnam to prove that he, too, could survive a grueling ordeal; • Deborah Schwartz, a Southern beauty queen who—at the Miss America pageant, played the same Chopin piece that was played over Polish radio during Hitler's invasion. Epstein interviewed hundreds of men and women coping with an extraordinary legacy. In each, she found shades of herself.
What makes some societies more vulnerable to AIDS than others? Why is the HIV epidemic so severe in Africa and why have governments and NGOs largely failed to halt its progress? Epstein goes to the heart of why epidemics spread and what we should be doing to stop them.
After the death of her mother, author and journalist Helen Epstein set out to uncover her mother's past and to learn more about her grandmother and great- grandmother, victims of the Holocaust. The result is this compelling biography, both a chronicle of three generations of women and a social history of Czechoslovakia's Jews.
Memoáry americké novinářky a spisovatelky Helen Epstein odhalují intimní tajemství v kontextu dramatické českožidovské minulosti rodičů a amerických poměrů. Hledání tajemství, které autorka tuší, že se odehrálo v jejím dětství a ovlivnilo ji na celý život. Autobiografie „O čem se nemluví“ je třetím dílem Helen Epstein o mezigeneračním přenosu traumatu, autorka tak navazuje na „Děti Holocaustu“ o životě druhé generace a na „Nalezenou minulost“ o moravských kořenech své matky.