Daughters of The Labyrinth

Daughters of The Labyrinth
Ruth Padel
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Paperback
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3 Mar 2022 UK
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9781472156389
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An artist turns back to her roots and discovers they are not what she thought. Daughters of the Labyrinth is a contemporary story, for an era of instability, about love, loss and memory, parents and children, the fragility of life, and the forgotten Jews of Crete. How well do you know your mother? Ri is an artist living between two cultures. Born on the Greek island of Crete, land of myth, ancient ruins and mass tourism, she has lived and worked in London most of her life. When her English husband dies in an accident and their daughter goes away to New York, she turns to her Cretan roots, only to discover they are filled with long-hidden secrets. Her parents were teenagers during the German occupation of Crete. Unearthing their stories, their layers of loss and changed identities, transforms her relationship to them and to herself. Poignant, gripping and surprising, set in Crete and London in 2019-2020 against a backdrop of global uncertainty, Daughters of the Labyrinth explores the hold of the past on the present through three intertwining lives.
Daughters of the Labyrinth is a novel about a daughter' s passionate quest for the truth about what happened to her parents in Crete during the German occupation. It is also a sumptuous and sensuous evocation of Crete itself, its landscape and culture. Ruth Padel' s brings a poet' s eye to this world of great physical beauty and gnarled legacy * Colm Toibin * Ruth Padel brings a poet' s ear for internal musical pattern, and deep and loving knowledge of the stones, light and colours of Crete, as she winds us into coils within coils of a family' s dark history. She combines dramatic storytelling with moving reflectiveness, asking us to think again about whether it is better to remember or to forget? * Marina Warner *
Ruth Padel is an award-winning poet, journalist and broadcaster. She lives in North London with her daughter.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781472156389
Published: 3 Mar 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Corsair
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Paperback
Weight: 300g
Pages: 336

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