In paradise : a novel
/ Peter Matthiessen
- New York : Riverhead Books , 2014
- 246 p. ; 25 cm
A novel about an American professor of Holocaust Studies who, over the course of a weeklong spiritual retreat at Auschwitz, is forced to grapple with his own past and a family secret: the Jewish mother abandoned to her doom by his Gentile father.
English
Winner of the National Book Award
9781594633171
Teachers----Fiction Jewish women----Fiction Family secrets----Fiction