What she discovered launched her on a worldwide search that would deliver indelible portraits of a family loving, finding meaning, and trying to survive amid the worst that can be imagined. Ten years later Ariana finally summoned the courage to have the letters translated and she began reading. When Hans died, he left Ariana a small box filled with letters, diary entries and other memorabilia. All his daughter Ariana knew was that something terrible had happened. What Hans experienced was so unspeakable that, when he built an industrial empire in Venezuela, he couldn't bring himself to talk about it. One of the survivors was Hans Neumann, who, to escape the German death net, travelled to Berlin and hid in plain sight under the Gestapo's eyes. Of thirty-four Neumann family members, twenty-five were murdered by the Nazis. Eighteen days later his prisoner number was entered into the morgue book. In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia for bathing in a stretch of river forbidden to Jews. In this remarkably moving memoir Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father's past: years spent hiding in plain sight in wartorn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew. When Time Stopped is more than just history. Alongside anger and despair there is love and hope. WINNER OF THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE KRAUS FAMILY AWARD WINNER FOR BEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR AT THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS
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The Climate (2014), The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007) and No Logo (2000). Naomi is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and international and New York Times bestselling author of: How To Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Earth and Each Other (2021), On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal (2019), No Is Not Enough: Resisting the New Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need (2017), This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. She is Honorary Professor of Media and Climate at Rutgers. In 2018 she was named the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University. She is the founding co-director of the UBC Centre for Climate Justice. Naomi Klein is the UBC Professor of Climate Justice (tenured) at the University of British Columbia in the Faculty of Arts (Geography Dept). 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She unleashes a mathematics as compelling as her attention to the contradictions within personalities." NPR's Celia McGee noted, "Makkai’s writing isn’t the kind that calls attention to itself, allowing the people, emotions, personal incidents and public occurrences of her book to take shape with the force of urgency and the authentic, the grievousness of deceit-by lovers, by families, by hope-and the generosity of romance, sorrow, growth and wonder. Writing for the Los Angeles Times, Dan López called The Great Believers "a heartbreaking meditation on AIDS, loss, and friendship." Kirkus said the book was "as compulsively readable as it is thoughtful and moving." The Great Believers received starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and Shelf Awareness, as well as a positive review from Library Journal, The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, Los Angeles Review of Books, Entertainment Weekly, The Star Tribune, The Kenyon Review, NPR, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, and Lambda Literary, among others. The book is a Carnegie Medal winner, National Book Award finalist, Stonewall Book Award winner, and Pulitzer Prize finalist. The Great Believers is a historical fiction novel by Rebecca Makkai, published Jby Penguin Books. Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction winner. |