House of Glass av Hadley Freeman

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The Sunday Times bestseller ¿An utterly engrossing book¿ Nigella Lawson ¿Remarkable and gripping¿ Edmund de Waal''A near-perfect study of Jewish identity in the 20th century ¿ I don¿t hesitate to call it a masterpiece¿ TelegraphAfter her grandmother died, Hadley Freeman travelled to her apartment to try and make sense of a woman she¿d never really known. Sala Glass was a European expat in America ¿ defiantly clinging to her French influences, famously reserved, fashionable to the end ¿ yet to Hadley much of her life remained a mystery. Sala¿s experience of surviving one of the most tumultuous periods in modern history was never spoken about.When Hadley found a shoebox filled with her grandmother¿s treasured belongings, it started a decade-long quest to find out their haunting significance and to dig deep into the extraordinary lives of Sala and her three brothers. The search takes Hadley from Picasso¿s archives in Paris to a secret room in a farmhouse in Auvergne to Long Island and to