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category: Biography & Autobiography
published: Aug 2006
ISBN:9781553652205
publisher: Douglas & McIntyre

Storyteller, The

Memory, Secrets, Magic and Lies

by Anna Porter

tagged: personal memoirs, holocaust, france
Description

Born in 1889, Anna Porter's grandfather, Vili Racz, was a patriot and Olympic athlete, a magician and a lawyer, a publisher and a prisoner, a philanderer and a devoted family man. On long walks through the once-grand European capital of Budapest, in confidences whispered in splendid fin-de-siecle coffee houses, Vili shared his stories of heroes and hardships, war and revolution. Vili's stories are the foundation of this vivid memoir, which follows Anna and her family from the tumultuous years of the Second World War to the Hungarian Revolution and their exile to New Zealand. Through young Anna's eyes, we accompany her to prison with her mother, see her beloved Vili unjustly sentences to hard labour, and witness unspeakable human loss in the streets of Budapest during the failed uprising against the Communists.

About the Author
Anna Porter is the award-winning author of ten books, both fiction and nonfiction, most recently Deceptions and In Other Words: How I Fell in Love with Canada One Book at a Time. She has written five mystery novels, including The Appraisal, which was shortlisted for the Staunch Book Prize, and Mortal Sins. Kasztner’s Train won the 2007 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and Ghosts of Europe won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. She cofounded Key Porter Books, an influential publishing house she ran for more than twenty years. In addition, she writes book reviews, opinion pieces, and stuff. She is an Officer of the Order of Canada and has received the Order of Ontario. Visit her at AnnaPorter.ca or connect with her on Twitter @AnnaPorter_Anna.
Editorial Reviews

"Luminously melancholy...haunting and powerful...a feat of magic."

— Globe & Mail

"Enchanting...this is a fascinating story, movingly told...The Storyteller speaks eloquently to the uses -- and misuses -- of history and the power of narrative...Vili would have been proud."

— The National Post

"The Storyteller shows that great storytellers are both born and made. Like grandfather, like granddaughter."

— Chatelaine

"A superb book; finely written, embracing in its vision, and full of the little touches that make good memoirs come alive."

— The Edmonton Journal

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