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How to Be a Refugee: One Family's Story of Exile and Belonging
Category: Books > Biographies > Biographies
Author/Artist: SIMON MAY
ISBN / ID: 9781529042818
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Binding: HARDBACK
Price: AU$44.99
  
Description: How to Be a Refugee is Simon May’s gripping account of how three sisters, his mother and his two aunts, grappled with what they felt to be a lethal heritage. Their very different trajectories included conversion to Catholicism, marriage into the German aristocracy, securing ‘Aryan’ status with high-ranking help from inside Hitler’s regime, and engagement to a card-carrying Nazi.

Even after his mother fled to London from Nazi Germany and Hitler had been defeated, her instinct for self-concealment didn’t abate. Following the early death of his father, also a German Jewish refugee, May was raised a Catholic and forbidden to identify as Jewish or German or British. In the face of these banned inheritances, May embarks on a quest to uncover the lives of the three sisters as well as the secrets of a grandfather he never knew.

His haunting story forcefully illuminates questions of belonging and home – questions that continue to press in on us today.
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