La maison Rozenbaum | Evelyne Lagardet

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The Rozenbaum Home

Evelyne Lagardet

Release date : 12/04/2018

The Resistance is getting organized at the Rozenbaum Home! A stunning tale of love and frienship, the story of two lifelong resistants’ struggle to reclaim their own lives.

~Bound by an uncommon love… both for each other and and for life itself,
Sarah and Albert make a wonderful couple. For these two concentrationcamp
survivors who have been through hell and back, every minute lived is
like thumbing their noses at death.
She is a born philosopher, he a born teacher; they are... ~Bound by an uncommon love… both for each other and and for life itself,
Sarah and Albert make a wonderful couple. For these two concentrationcamp
survivors who have been through hell and back, every minute lived is
like thumbing their noses at death.
She is a born philosopher, he a born teacher; they are both musicians who
love art and culture, and are steeped in humanism.
But when Alzheimer’s casts a pall over Sarah, her sons decide – against
the couple’s will – to move her to The Rozenbaum Home, a facility with a
respectable reputation. Despite their many happy years together, the aging
lovebirds had never married, so Sarah’s children finally have a chance to
take over and get their step-father out of the picture. So the only way for
Albert to stay with his true love is to get himself admitted into the home for
former deportees, too.
It turns out that the institution’s respectability is but a façade in front of an
entirely different reality. In this isolated place, the staff is often brutal to
the residents, and the elderly people’s spirits have been crushed. Some of
their families are more than willing to close their eyes to what’s going on,
others try to rebel, but are soon reduced to silence. With its cultural, social
and ethnic diversity, the retirement home is like a microcosm of society,
where joy can turn into horror from one moment to the next. Struggles,
intrigues and prerogatives… the terrain is dangerous, and the residents are
the scapegoats.
Getting locked up again reawakens memories from Sarah and Albert’s
painful past… but it also stirs their resilient spirits, too. After all, in order
to cling to their own humanity, years ago they had managed to oppose
barbarity with solidarity, and madness with hope...

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EAN : 9782259264495

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 456

Size : 140 x 225 mm

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