Other People's Houses: A Novel

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A fortieth anniversary edition of the author's semi-autobiographical first novel follows the experiences of a ten-year-old girl who flees her Nazi-occupied homeland and finds shelter in England with three families including the Jewish Orthodox Levines, the working-class Hoopers, and two elderly sisters from a formal Victorian household. Reprint.

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Praise for Other People's Houses:

"An immensely impressive, unclassifiable book. On the surface it is an account of flight from the Nazis, of displacement and transplantation; but beneath that it contains an extraordinary rendering of the self."
The New Republic

"A brilliant novel in the form of a memoir . . . [Lore Segal has] the sharp analytic eye of a born writer."
The New York Times Book Review

"Great sensitivity, coolness, and charm . . . the keen innocent observation of the childs-eye view."
New York Review of Books

Author Bio

Lore Segal, and other publications.