Come Back for Me
Kindle Edition
University of Toronto Press · Ebook · January 24, 2019
Loss, trauma, memory, and, above all, the ties of family and being Jewish are the elements that weave together this panoramic story.
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- Who it’s for
- An easy entry into a serious story, with family at its center.
- Genres
- World War II & Holocaust, Jewish Fiction, Multigenerational Family Stories
- Published
- University of Toronto Press, January 24, 2019
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Loss, trauma, memory, and, above all, the ties of family and being Jewish are the elements that weave together this panoramic story. Come Back for Me travels through time and place only to bring us, ultimately, to the connections between generations. Artur Mandelkorn is a young Hungarian Holocaust survivor whose desperate quest to find his sister takes him to post-war Israel.
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Intersecting Artur's tale is that of Suzy Kohn, a Toronto teenager whose seemingly tranquil life is shattered when her uncle's sudden death tears her family apart. Their stories eventually come together in Israel following the Six-Day War, where love and understanding become the threads that bind the two narratives together. Like Sarah's Key, Come Back for Me deals evocatively with the scars left by tragedy and the possibilities for healing.
A Clear Entry
An easy entry into a serious story, with family at its center.
Come here for
- accessible, sustained narrative
- Jewish family focus
Expect
- Holocaust-era lens
- straightforward, immersive pace
Where it sits
| World War II & Holocaust | 96% |
|---|---|
| Jewish Fiction | 76% |
| Multigenerational Family Stories | 58% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Literary Fiction
- Jewish Fiction
- Holocaust Stories for Teens
- Authors
- Sharon Hart-Green
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Published
- January 24, 2019
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- Literary Fiction