Susan Rubin Suleiman - Daughter of History
The premiere of Susan Rubin Suleiman's autobiographical novel, The Daughter of History, at the Three Ravens!
Susan Rubin Suleiman's memoir is about reconciliation. Daughter of History is a fascinating journey that reconciles personal memories with the violent history of the twentieth century.
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When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, five-year-old Susan had to learn her new Christian name while hiding in Budapest with her parents on false papers. While her rural relatives were among the 450,000 Hungarian Jews deported to Auschwitz, Susan's immediate family survived the war and even flourished in the years that followed. But when the Communist Party took power in Hungary, Susan and her parents emigrated to Chicago via Vienna, Paris, Haiti and New York. As an adult, as a respected feminist professor, she rarely allowed herself to think about these past chapters - but when her own children became teenagers and her mother became ill, she felt compelled to return to Budapest, bringing up childhood memories that changed the direction of her research and career.
Date: 03.12.2024 18:00
Place: Három Holló (Budapest, Piarista köz 1, 1052)
Interview with EMILIA ANNA SZŰCS, translator of the book, and MIRTILL RAMÓNA TÓTH, editor of Kalligram Publishing.
Susan Rubin Suleiman (Budapest, 1939) is Professor Emerita at Harvard University, where she taught French and Comparative Literature. Among her many books are The Némirovsky Question (2016) and an earlier memoir, Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook (1996). She currently lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland. This is his first book to be published in Hungarian translation.
The book is available for purchase at the introductory price!