Alfred Street (University of Auckland Store)
Are you sure you want to delete this address?
Lost And Gone Away
Paperback Edition: 1
In four parts, the book explores loss and recovery, New Zealanders relationships with Western literature, and what it means to be Jewish in the antipodes.Between 2010 and 2014 Lynn Jenner made several related emotional and intellectual investigations. Lost and Gone Away is the record of
these: a fascinating hybrid text of nonfiction, prose poems and poetry. The book traverses the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquake; samples and sifts through the lost and recovered detritus of the ancient world; radiates its attention out from that epicentre of loss, the Point Last Seen, from which all searches begin; and quietly, devastatingly, explores how one might think and write about the Holocaust, from far away. More than a year ago a friend, who speaks five languages and reads several more, told me it would not be possible to write about the Holocaust from New Zealand. Theres so little to say here, she said. You should go to Europe. But this is where I am, I said. That is the problem. This is where I am from, this is who I am, and this is where I am..
...
more
Featured in the 20 July 2015 New Zealand Newsletter.
To receive this newsletter regularly please email us with your name and contact details.
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Publication date : 2015-06
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, New Zealand, History, NZ Biography & True Stories, The Holocaust