Homecoming

Nonfiction, History, Eastern Europe, Jewish, Biography & Memoir, Literary
Cover of the book Homecoming by Joseph Wechsberg, Plunkett Lake Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Joseph Wechsberg ISBN: 1230000127898
Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press Publication: April 26, 2013
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Joseph Wechsberg
ISBN: 1230000127898
Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press
Publication: April 26, 2013
Imprint:
Language: English

Homecoming by Joseph Wechsberg (24,000 words, 24 illustrations)

Published by Knopf in 1946 as an expanded version of a two-part New Yorker article.

Joseph Wechsberg and his wife left Czechoslovakia for America in 1938. Sent with the US Army to liberate Europe from the Nazis, Wechsberg returns to Ostrava, the town where he grew up. Searching for his wife's parents, he discovers the devastation of World War II, hears first-hand accounts of its atrocities, witnesses the antics of Red Army soldiers, and remembers his childhood — discovering in the end that home is no longer Ostrava, but California.

“[…] a moving, brilliantly written account of [Wechsberg's] return to his home-town, Moravia Ostrava (Maehrisch Ostrau) […]. As in his earlier stories in The New Yorker, almost every ounce of sentiment in Homecoming was set off by an equal measure of irony.” — Richard Plant, The New York Times

“A short and very personal book, […] a personal footnote to current European history. […] Affecting and convincing impressions of a shattered world.” — Kirkus Reviews

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Homecoming by Joseph Wechsberg (24,000 words, 24 illustrations)

Published by Knopf in 1946 as an expanded version of a two-part New Yorker article.

Joseph Wechsberg and his wife left Czechoslovakia for America in 1938. Sent with the US Army to liberate Europe from the Nazis, Wechsberg returns to Ostrava, the town where he grew up. Searching for his wife's parents, he discovers the devastation of World War II, hears first-hand accounts of its atrocities, witnesses the antics of Red Army soldiers, and remembers his childhood — discovering in the end that home is no longer Ostrava, but California.

“[…] a moving, brilliantly written account of [Wechsberg's] return to his home-town, Moravia Ostrava (Maehrisch Ostrau) […]. As in his earlier stories in The New Yorker, almost every ounce of sentiment in Homecoming was set off by an equal measure of irony.” — Richard Plant, The New York Times

“A short and very personal book, […] a personal footnote to current European history. […] Affecting and convincing impressions of a shattered world.” — Kirkus Reviews

More books from Plunkett Lake Press

Cover of the book The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse by Joseph Wechsberg
Cover of the book Mental Healers: Franz Anton Mesmer, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Freud by Joseph Wechsberg
Cover of the book James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age (Book Two) by Joseph Wechsberg
Cover of the book The Colonizer and the Colonized by Joseph Wechsberg
Cover of the book Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age by Joseph Wechsberg
Cover of the book The Vienna I Knew: Memories of a European Childhood by Joseph Wechsberg
Cover of the book Making an Exit by Joseph Wechsberg
Cover of the book The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews by Joseph Wechsberg
Cover of the book Voice of Israel by Joseph Wechsberg
Cover of the book The Turning Point: Thirty-Five Years in this Century, the Autobiography of Klaus Mann by Joseph Wechsberg
Cover of the book The Death of an American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions by Joseph Wechsberg
Cover of the book Adepts in Self-Portraiture: Casanova, Stendhal, Tolstoy by Joseph Wechsberg
Cover of the book Jacqueline du Pré: A Biography by Joseph Wechsberg
Cover of the book Listen, Hans by Joseph Wechsberg
Cover of the book Defying Hitler: A Memoir by Joseph Wechsberg
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy