Invisible Ink : A Family Memoir
by
Martha Leigh
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1800460384
ISBN-13
9781800460386
Publisher
Troubador Publishing
Imprint
Matador
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 28th, 2021
Print length
239 Pages
Weight
324 grams
Dimensions
13.80 x 21.50 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
Memoirs
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From letters to real life: Invisible Ink is a powerful portrait of love and marriage between a gay man and a refugee, poignantly told by their daughter. Ralph is a brilliant, poor, gay Jew from the East End. Edith, also Jewish, is a tender-hearted but resilient pianist from Central Europe.
Martha’s parents were both extraordinary people living in extraordinary times. Ralph was a brilliant, poor Jew from the East End. Edith, also Jewish from a bourgeois family in Central Europe was a gifted pianist. They met as students in Paris in 1937 and were separated by the war. Their intimate, emotional and sometimes humorous correspondence throughout the war led to marriage in 1945. Each bore scars. She, from escaping the Nazis, he from childhood tragedy. Overshadowing them both was a secret that burdened Ralph for most of his life. After the war he became the world expert on Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Edith devoted herself to her piano, performing and teaching. Invisible Ink is a compassionate, astute and ultimately uplifting portrait of their relationship.
The author has also unearthed many other stories: her uncle’s heroism and pioneering work in medicine, her grandmother and cousin’s miraculous escapes from the holocaust. These are threads entwined in the greater tapestry of social and political history of the twentieth century. In discovering the truth about her family, Martha has also taken an inner journey towards understanding herself.
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