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Editorial Reviews A brilliant novel in the form of a memoir, Other People's Houses. . . recounts the life of a Viennese refugee child who is boarded in a series of English families for seven years, and goes on to tell of [her] three years in the Dominican Republic, before she and her mother are finally admitted to the United States in 1951. . . [Lore Segal] has the sharp analytic eye of a born wri... More

Editorial Reviews A brilliant novel in the form of a memoir, Other People's Houses. . . recounts the life of a Viennese refugee child who is boarded in a series of English families for seven years, and goes on to tell of [her] three years in the Dominican Republic, before she and her mother are finally admitted to the United States in 1951. . . [Lore Segal] has the sharp analytic eye of a born writer. -- New York Times Book Review An immensely impressive, unclassifiable book. On the surface it is an account of flight from Nazis, of displacement and transplantation; but beneath that it contains an extraordinary rendering of the self. -- New Republic Great sensitivity, coolness, and charm. . . the keen innocent observation of the child's-eye view. -- New York Review of Books --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Product Description Published in 1964 and hailed by critics including Cynthia Ozick and Elie Wiesel, Other People's Houses is Lore Segal's internationally acclaimed semi-autobiographical first novel. Nine months after Hitler takes Austria, a ten-year-old girl leaves Vienna aboard a children's transport that is to take her and several hundred children to safety in England. For the next seven years she lives in "other people's houses," the homes of the wealthy Orthodox Jewish Levines, the working-class Hoopers, and two elderly sisters in their formal Victorian household. An insightful and witty depiction of the ways of life of those who gave her refuge, Other People's Houses is a wonderfully memorable novel of the immigrant experience. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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