from the cover of the book
'' For Eliza ''
author: Jenny Manaki
The young Jewish girl Eliza, returning to Thessaloniki, some years after her incarceration in a concentration camp, meets in the train the Englishman Gerard Benton, a fellow traveler with the same destination, intending to meet his beloved Anna.
Eliza lives at her parents house, saved by her aunt Rachel, after the extermination of her relatives by the Nazis.
A random meeting with Gerard, who is dissapointed by the failure of the relationship with Anna, ends up in marriage, despite the obstacle of different religion and country.
Their marriage falls apart, when Gerard reunites with his previous lover. Eliza's mental condition destabilazes by his absence and his violent behaviour.
When Eliza discovers a handgun and a photograph of him, taken in 1936 at Berlin, accompanied by two men,wearing a Nazi armband , loses her mind. She believes that Gerard is German. She tries to kill him in front of her little daughter Luna, leaving her voiceless.
The couple divorces. Eliza writes her memories. She's unable to be an affectionate mother, because of her constantly deteriorating health. At home a bleak atmosphere prevails which creates alternating feelings of love and hate.
Luna basically knows her mother through her writings.In an effort to unleash and relieve the family drama, she decides to issue Eliza's memoirs after her death.
Will she be able to overcome her heavy heritage, and move on to her personal life?
A book about the consequences of war. A family saga for people of different religions and homelands. The relationship between mother and daughter.
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A book about the adhesive substance that unites people, which is always empathy, love, understanding!