The Photographer at Sixteen av George Szirtes

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<p><b>A poet''s memoir of his mother that flows backwards through time, through a tumultuous period of European history - a tender and yet unsparing autobiographical journey.</b><br><br><b>**A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK**<br></b><br><b>"A truly remarkable book . . . fiercely compelling" EDMUND DE WAAL</b><br><br><b><i>*WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE* </i></b><b><i>*SHORTLISTED FOR THE JEWISH WINGATE PRIZE*</i></b><br><br><b>"I''ve read no memoir that moved me more" MIRANDA SEYMOUR</b><br><br><b>"The writing is always scrupulous . . . [a] compelling memoir" BLAKE MORRISON</b><br><br><b>"Beautifully written and utterly compelling" <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><b>"An original, probingly thoughtful memoir" EVA HOFFMANN</b><br><br>In July 1975, Magda Szirtes died in the ambulance on the way to hospital after she had tried to take her own life. She was fifty-one years old. <i>The Photographer at Sixteen </i>spools into the past, through her exile in England, her flight with he