Mia Gallagher
Autor/a de HellFire
Obres de Mia Gallagher
Quasimodo 1 exemplars
The Stinging Fly: Fear and Fantasy — Editor — 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- Ireland
- Lloc de naixement
- Dublin, Ireland
Membres
Ressenyes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 7
- També de
- 1
- Membres
- 70
- Popularitat
- #248,179
- Valoració
- 4.3
- Ressenyes
- 3
- ISBN
- 9
- Preferit
- 1
I picked up this book because I heard the author's interview on Jessa Crispin's podcast, and she discussed the challenge of researching the ethnic cleansing of Germans from Czechoslovakia after WWII, information that comes through in the novel in an interview with Anna Bauer, a Sudeten German woman who fled to England. My family is also ethnically German (Donauschwaben) and was expelled from Yugoslavia (now Serbia) under a similar nationalist program during the same time period. I've never read a novel that addresses the experiences of this population, and it was gratifying to read about the larger significance of this huge piece of my family's story in such a compassionate, intellectual, ambitious novel.… (més)