Nicholas Lemann

Returning (eBook, ePUB)

A Search for Home Across Three Centuries

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Compulsive, shattering, if not fundamentally disruptive, Returning emerges as one of the most important and searingly honest family sagas of our time.

Nicholas Lemann grew up thinking he wanted to be Jack Burden, the evercurious reporterhistorian in Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men who gets drawn into a web of southern intrigue. Like his fictional mentor, Lemann pulls us mesmerizingly into a threecentury family drama, in which he traces the Lemanns from their humble beginnings in Germany to the nineteenthcentury American South, where they became Jewish plantation owners and aspirants to New Orleans society. Yet Lemann began chafing against the South's strict racial hierarchy and his relatives' eagerness to be accepted in an antiSemitic environment, including a deliberate blindness to the plight of desperate European Jews. Returning follows the narrator as he rejects this assimilated world and embraces the rites of Judaism. Through its nuanced combination of biography and philosophy, Returning, with its heartrending portraits of generations of family members, becomes one of the most memorable statements about Jewish history in the twentyfirst century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liveright
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781631498428
• Artikelnr.: 75601422

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Lemann is a professor and dean emeritus at the Columbia Journalism School. He is the author of The Promised Land, The Big Test, Redemption, and Transaction Man. A staff writer for The New Yorker since 1999, he lives in New York.