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Agata Tuszynska is the author of six collections of internationally translated poetry, a biography of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Vera Gran- The Accused, and Bruno Schulz's Fiancee. Tuszynska is the recipient of the Polish PEN Club Ksawery Pruszynski Prize, a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, a Fulbright scholarship, and won the Canadian Literary Award for Holocaust Literature for Family History of Fear. Her books have been translated into a dozen languages. She lives in Toronto, Warsaw, and Paris. www.agatatuszynska.com Charles Ruas was born in China and graduated from Princeton University and the Sorbonne. He is a specialist in French and English comparative literature. He is the author of Conversations with American Writers, and has translated Michel Foucault's Death and the Labyrinth- Raymond Roussel as well as Pierre Assouline's An Artful Life- A Biography of D. H. Kahnweiler 1884-1979 and Herge- The Man Who Created Tintin. He was awarded by the French government the Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. Ruas lives in New York City.
Illuminating. . . . Tuszyńska offers us vignettes and personal narratives that track the ever-shifting course of Polish-Jewish relations in the 20th century. --The Wall Street Journal <p/> Family History of Fear is not only a memoir or work of restorative personal history. It's an act of un-erasure. Tracing her bloodlines of fear, secrecy and self-loathing, [Tuszyńska] uncovers a history of survival and solidarity, of profound love. --The Globe and Mail (Toronto) <p/> A work of fierce courage. . . . [Family History of Fear] is Tuszyńska's beautiful, terrifying fight to bring her heritage alive. --The Jewish Book Council <p/> A family saga meticulously re-created . . . A literary account of searching for one's identity. -- Ryszard Kapuściński, author of The Soccer War and Imperium <p/> A moving memoir. --Toronto Star
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