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Suitcase, The: Six Attempts to Cross a Border

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Suitcase, The: Six Attempts to Cross a Border

SKU: 9781787330542 Category: Product ID: 195653

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Title: Suitcase, The: Six Attempts to Cross a Border
Author: SAUNDERS FRANCES STONOR
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 17/08/2021
Imprint: JONATHAN CAPE
Price: $40.00
Publishing status: Active

Ten years ago, Frances Stonor Saunders was handed an old suitcase filled with her
father’s papers. ‘If you open that suitcase you’ll never close it again,’ warned her mother.
Her father’s life had been a study in borders – exiled from Romania during the war, to
Turkey then Egypt and eventually Britain, and ultimately to the borderless territory of
Alzheimer’s. The unopened suitcase seems to represent everything that had made her
father unknowable to her in life. Now she finds herself with the dilemma of two competing
urges: wanting to know what’s in the suitcase, and wanting not to know. So begins this
captivating exploration of history, memory and geography, as Frances Stonor Saunders
unpicks her father’s and his family’s past. Is it possible to bring her father back, to summon
once more someone who was distant and elusive when alive? The past is always the
history of loss, of black holes, of things gone missing. Life is a long forgetting, even as we
live it. The Suitcase is an extraordinary, heroic effort of retrieval, driven by the ache for
completion. It is about the silences and stories that protect us, and the borders we
construct, literally and figuratively, to fortify our sense of who we are.

ISBN: 9781787330542
Pages: 320