AFTER LONG SILENCE(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　To this day, I don’t even know what my mother’s real name
is.
　　Helen Fremont was raised as a Roman Catholic. It wasn’t until she
was an adult, practicing law in Boston, that she discovered her
parents were Jewish–Holocaust survivors living invented lives. Not
even their names were their own. In this powerful memoir, Helen
Fremont delves into the secrets that held her family in a bond of
silence for more than four decades, recounting with heartbreaking
clarity a remarkable tale of survival, as vivid as fiction but with
the resonance of truth.
　　Driven to uncover their roots, Fremont and her sister pieced
together an astonishing story: of Siberian Gulags and Italian
royalty, of concentration camps and buried lives. After Long
Silence is about the devastating price of hiding the truth; about
families; about the steps we take, foolish or wise, to protect
ourselves and our loved ones. No one who reads this book can be
unmoved, or fail to understand the seductive, damaging power of
secrets.

　　Helen Fremont lives in Boston, Massachusetts. She has had
fiction and nonfiction published in The Harvard Review,
The O. Henry Prize Stories, The Marlboro Review, and
Ploughshares. After Long Silence is her first
book.

　　”A story of safe but costly passage from one identity to
another that takes us from Europe to America via World War
II…[Fremont] has the intelligence and imagination to question her
own motives. This allows her to question the memoir form, even as
she deploys it so beautifully.”
　　–The New York Times
　　”An extraordinary tale…eloquently written….Its complex
narrative weaves back and forth between past and present, the tale
and its discovery.”
　　–The Philadelphia Inquirer
　　”Fascinating…A tragic saga, but at the same time it often reads
like a thriller filled with acts of extraordinary courage,
de*ions of dangerous journeys and a series of secret
identities.”
　　–Chicago Tribune
　　”Riveting…painfully authentic…a poignant memoir, a labor of
love for the parents she never really knew.”
　　–The Boston Globe
　　”Mesmerizing…Fremont has accomplished something that seems
close to impossible: She has made a fresh and worthy contribution
to the vast literature of the Holocaust.”
　　–The Washington Post Book World