Among the Living and the Dead by Inara Verzemnieks
Extraordinarily tender and finely wrought. Eliza Griswold, author of The Tenth Parallel
"Thoughtful and eloquent. . . Verzemnieks is solid on her history. Even more, she offers a model for how to navigate it. When she reaches the limit of what she can know, she doesn't confuse it with the limit of what can be known." -- David Bezmozgis - New York Times Book Review
"This exquisitely written book shows how recovery can come generations later through rebuilding connections—to people, the natural world, the past." -- Robin Shulman - Washington Post
"[Verzemnieks] is a gracious writer, inviting the readers on her journey into the past…Armed with her wealth of knowledge in Latvian history and myths, and her masterful and lush observations, Verzemnieks remains an able guide, earning our undivided attention and admiration." -- Angela Ajayi - Minneapolis Star Tribune
"In her elegiac new book, [Verzemnieks] describes how she hoped the faraway travels would restore her grandmother "in the old stories" that still existed there…Ultimately, what she found was even broader: the meaning of home, the power of stories, and the different ways survivors and their memories move forward." -- Rebekah Denn - Christian Science Monitor
"An exquisite book for the ages as it unfolds from its first mysterious sentence into a masterpiece about war, survival, memory, and, most movingly of all, human need." -- David Finkel, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Good Soldiers
"Verzemnieks does not shirk from confronting the extremities of human behavior; but she also gives us the rich textures of a world in which poetic mythology coexists with sophisticated modernity, the dead mingle with the living, and the hardships of a traumatic past are countered by the strength of memory and of lasting attachments." -- Eva Hoffman, author of Exit into History
"The astute reportorial sensitivity of a master Eastern European historian like Timothy Snyder, as filtered through the lyric sensibility of a García Márquez, and suffused in the aching nostalgia of a latter-day Proust." -- Lawrence Wechsler, author of The Passion of Poland
"Poetic, melancholy, colored by the dark beauty of the northern landscape, this memoir of loss and recovery from the tragedies of the twentieth century will linger in your imagination, widen your historical perspective, and make you grateful that language has such power.”" -- D. J. Waldie, author of Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir
"A highly polished memoir of enormous heart." -- Kirkus (starred review)
"This exquisitely written book shows how recovery can come generations later through rebuilding connections—to people, the natural world, the past." -- Robin Shulman - Washington Post
"[Verzemnieks] is a gracious writer, inviting the readers on her journey into the past…Armed with her wealth of knowledge in Latvian history and myths, and her masterful and lush observations, Verzemnieks remains an able guide, earning our undivided attention and admiration." -- Angela Ajayi - Minneapolis Star Tribune
"In her elegiac new book, [Verzemnieks] describes how she hoped the faraway travels would restore her grandmother "in the old stories" that still existed there…Ultimately, what she found was even broader: the meaning of home, the power of stories, and the different ways survivors and their memories move forward." -- Rebekah Denn - Christian Science Monitor
"An exquisite book for the ages as it unfolds from its first mysterious sentence into a masterpiece about war, survival, memory, and, most movingly of all, human need." -- David Finkel, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Good Soldiers
"Verzemnieks does not shirk from confronting the extremities of human behavior; but she also gives us the rich textures of a world in which poetic mythology coexists with sophisticated modernity, the dead mingle with the living, and the hardships of a traumatic past are countered by the strength of memory and of lasting attachments." -- Eva Hoffman, author of Exit into History
"The astute reportorial sensitivity of a master Eastern European historian like Timothy Snyder, as filtered through the lyric sensibility of a García Márquez, and suffused in the aching nostalgia of a latter-day Proust." -- Lawrence Wechsler, author of The Passion of Poland
"Poetic, melancholy, colored by the dark beauty of the northern landscape, this memoir of loss and recovery from the tragedies of the twentieth century will linger in your imagination, widen your historical perspective, and make you grateful that language has such power.”" -- D. J. Waldie, author of Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir
"A highly polished memoir of enormous heart." -- Kirkus (starred review)
Inara Verzemnieks teaches creative nonfiction at the University of Iowa. She has won a Pushcart Prize and a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award, and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393245110 |
| ISBN 10 | 039324511X |
| Title | Among the Living and the Dead |
| Author | Inara Verzemnieks |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2018-03-23 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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