Familienleben

Synopsis of Familienleben

«Familienleben» is the family novel by Viola Roggenkamp, published by FISCHER Taschenbuch in paperback (438 pages, in German).

In 1967 Hamburg, Alma Schiefer lives with her husband and daughters in a villa in Harvestehude, while her grandmother, a survivor of Theresienstadt, gathers other women who endured the camp. The novel portrays the legacy of trauma, memory, and Jewish-German identity in the postwar period through family life.

Part of the Fischer Taschenbücher Allgemeine Reihe collection (no. 16591), in its 17th edition.

For readers of generational novels and family sagas interested in historical memory and Jewish life in postwar Germany.