Book Talk: Austerity Baby

The book is best described as an oblique memoir. It is essentially a family history, but one that is digressive in many ways. The central underlying and repeated themes of the book are exile and displacement; lives (and deaths) during the Third Reich; mother-daughter and sibling relationships; the generational transmission of trauma and experience; transatlantic reflections; and the struggle for creative expression. Other stories are told in the course of the narrative include the internment of aliens in Britain in 1940; cultural life in Rochester, New York in the 1920s; the social and personal meanings of colour(s); reflections on the lives and images of spinsters. There are two hundred colour images in the book (photographs, paintings, facsimile documents), some of which will be included in the presentation.
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https://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/Whats-On?item=412

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk/am52233?id=EVENT589510