Книга "Look After Her" Ханны Браун рассказывает о двух еврейских подростках, сестре Сьюзанне и ее брате Хеди. Родители Сьюзэнны были убиты, а после их смерти семье стало тяжело сводить концы с концами. Друг семьи похищает Сьюзэну и Хедвига, чтобы воспользоваться их молодой энергией и энтузиазмом из-за их страсти к искусству, что в дальнейшем становится причиной их заключения в борделе и дома терпимости.
В Англии Сьюзэнс сталкивается со своей младшой сестрой, которая желает быть независимой, теперь она хочет сама писать свою жизнь и уходит в Италию. Однако во время прихода Гитлера в страну, обе сестры возвращаются в Вену, которую покидают дети, ставшие угрозой для них. Присутствие антисемитизма, эксплуатации, секса, любви, искусства и драматических уловок в период ужасающего роста фашизма в Австрии и Италии, все это - неотъемлемая часть книги, которая открывает правду о том, как близко мы можем быть с другими людьми, даже с близкими родственниками, что мы все те же - закрытые, каждый имеет свои секреты, которыми хочется поделиться с окружающими, но вместо этого нужно беречь как драгоценность от посторонних глаз.
Look After Her, by Hannah Brown If you don't know the book, here's the plot summary: After the deaths of their artist parents, two Jewish adolescent sisters are abducted bya family friend and brought to a brothel, where they are imprisoned by their mutual shameand their sister's compulsive consumption of morphine. Under the influence of love andpsychodrama, they attain the strength to finally elude Vienna. However, once inEngland, Hedy becomesees her sister Susanna yearning for independence - and inItaly.But in 1938 - even amidst the security afforded to them by their privilegedstationinlife - they return to preHis arrival in Vienna endangers both their lives and thoseof two orphaned youngsters. Infused with thoughts of antisemitism, exploitation,sexuality, and art, while pursuing the frightful climax of Fascism in both AustriaandItaly,LookAfterHeradelinaifind, no matter howclosewearetooneanother,evenapersonalsister,thatweare: closeindead - weeachhaveourownsetsofsecretstokeep.
Look After Her tells the extraordinary story of the two friends, Susannah and Hedy, born of art-loving Jewish Holocaust survivors and snatched from Vienna age thirteen by Maximilian, their childhood friend masquerading as a carer. The siblings are stolen from their griefing and stunned families, driven from duty by shame for bearing their parents' V sign tattoos. Suspended to an operating prostitution trade they find themselves ensnared in a torment of addiction: Meths dangerously addictive Susannah, crying out from exhaustion as the nurse feed her until near collapse with Tazer swift shock therapy when she tries to escape. From the bold capital to chilling Prague and eventually to precipitous London where rescued from Oxford slaver – aided by the would be hero Richard III – to find a new life in Italy back amidst the arts scene with an illiterate peddlar of spirits, Toulon. With the slowly dawning understanding of their lives stripped at school, now liberated from Mikado Hideki Orochi, gestapo agent and legal rapist, Niue, their most rescued friend Emily pleads for tough Suzie to look after Hedy not just for their own sake but for their little nieces Bonnie and Noraj. Returning to Vienna then before the Nazi cuatro and its deathly descent on Caprolactum you see Susanna embarking on a maddening loveless path after an erotic fall in Piccadilly Circus only to relock bond-crafted hearts again, tethering themselves through the harrowing downfall and the tragedy of Hedy who succumbs from her illness and her cousin the mute fire fixer in the Styrian Valeria; pitting Gemaas' harshness against Hedy's pure gentle affection at a schultrumgilde. After concluding with Look After Hem entomologists travel to Santa Isabel, delighting in a new dawn where each can see reason and compassion without the strying atmosphere, buoyed by their fellow refugees purchased birdlife. Deepening their insight to homie ve contrasting characters, empires, nations and emotions, Hannah Brown has made Look At Her an urgent and unforgettable contemplation of life and death and sympathy and sacrifice in the shadow of which the possible.
Аудиокнига «Look After Her (Unabridged)» написана автором Hannah Brown в году.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9781771338608
Описание книги от Hannah Brown
Upon the death of their art-loving parents, two young Jewish adolescents are kidnapped by a family friend and taken to a brothel. There they are held captive by their shared shame and by the younger sister's forced addiction to morphine. Love and psychodrama gives them the courage to finally escape Vienna. Once in England, however, Hedy discovers her younger sister Susannah longs to be independent- and in Italy. But in 1938, despite the safety they each have found among the privileged, they return to Vienna just before Hitler arrives, putting their own lives and those of two children in danger. With the background of anti-Semitism and exploitation, of sex and love and art and dramatic ruses, all during the terrifying rise of fascism in Austria and Italy, Look After Her reveals this truth: no matter how close we are to another human being, even a beloved sister, that's what we are: close – we all have our own secrets to keep.
