This forgotten history of displaced WWII children and the return to their roots [is] captivating, thought-provoking, enlightening, and bittersweet.
Based on the true stories of children stolen during wartime, this heart-wrenching novel raises questions of complicity and responsibility, belonging and identity, good intentions and unforeseen consequences, as it confronts what it really means to find home..
Beautifully evocative and tender, filled with both luminosity and anguish, Once We Were Home reveals a little-known history.
But as their stories converge in Israel, in unexpected ways, they must each ask where and to whom they truly belong.
Two decades later, they are each building lives for themselves, trying to move on from the trauma and loss that haunts them.
After her mother\'s death, Renata\'s grief is entwined with all the questions her mother left unanswered, including why they fled Germany so quickly when Renata was a little girl.
Renata, a post-graduate student in archaeology, has spent her life unearthing secrets from the past--except for her own.
When a relative seeks to retrieve him, the Church steals him across the Pyrenees before relinquishing him to family in Jerusalem.
Roger grows up in a monastery in France, inventing stories and trading riddles with his best friend in a life of quiet concealment.
When a woman from a Jewish reclamation organization seizes them, believing she has their best interest at heart, Ana sees an opportunity to reconnect with her roots, while Oskar sees only the loss of the Home he loves.
For Oskar, though, their new family is the only one he remembers.
When your past is stolen, where do you belong? Ana will never forget her mother\'s face when she and her baby brother, Oskar, Were sent out of their Polish ghetto and into the arms of a Christian friend. ―
Lisa Scottoline, #1 bestselling author of Eternal From Jennifer Rosner, National Jewish Book Award Finalist and author of The Yellow Bird Sings , comes a novel based on the true stories of children stolen in the wake of World War II. ―
Alka Joshi, New York Times bestselling author of The Henna Artist Rosner is one of my favorite authors.
This forgotten history of displaced WWII children and the return to their roots [is] captivating, thought-provoking, enlightening, and bittersweet
