The Suitcase Frances Stonor Saunders

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Summary

Now she finds herself with the dilemma of two competing urges: wanting to know what's in the suitcase, and wanting not to know.

So begins this captivating exploration of history, memory and geography, as Frances Stonor Saunders unpicks her father's and his family's past.

The Suitcase Summary

The Suitcase: Six Attempts to Cross a Border by Frances Stonor Saunders

'This is family history at its best... the words fizz off the page and flutter in the mind' Sunday Times

If you open that suitcase you'll never close it again.

Ten years ago, Frances Stonor Saunders was handed an old suitcase filled with her father's papers. Her father's life had been a study in borders - exiled from Romania during the war, to Turkey then Egypt and eventually Britain, and ultimately to the borderless territory of Alzheimer's. The unopened suitcase seems to represent everything that had made her father unknowable to her in life.

So begins a captivating exploration of history, memory and geography, as Frances Stoner Saunders decides to unpick her family's past.

The Suitcase Reviews

Absolutely compelling... It's an extraordinary achievement. -- Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes
Intimate, affecting, elegiac - a remarkable exploration in the hands of a special writer. -- Philippe Sands, author of East West Street
Frances Stonor Saunders is one of those writers you read no matter what she writes. She is that good... this is family history at its best... the words fizz off the page and flutter in the mind... [The Suitcase] will haunt you. -- James McConnachie * Sunday Times *
[An] intimate and enquiring family history... Sympathetic, erudite, mournful -- Matthew Janney * Financial Times *
Stonor Saunders...has a magpie-eye for the telling detail... [and] a vivid turn of phrase. -- Robbie Millen * The Times *

About Frances Stonor Saunders

Frances Stonor Saunders is a writer, broadcaster and documentary-maker. She writes for the London Review of Books and Guardian, and is the former Arts Editor of the New Statesman. Her first book, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, has been translated into twenty languages, and was awarded the Royal Historical Society's William Gladstone Memorial Prize. She is also the author of Hawkwood and The Woman Who Shot Mussolini. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in London.

Additional information

Sku

GOR012515531

ISBN 13

9781784707705

ISBN 10

1784707708

Title

The Suitcase: Six Attempts to Cross a Border by Frances Stonor Saunders

Author

Frances Stonor Saunders

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

2022-06-02

Number of pages

240

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N/A

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