{"product_id":"9780857058553","title":"The Photographer at Sixteen : SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Szirtes, George, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 06\/02\/2020,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 240 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: MacLehose Press,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Quercus Publishing,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Biography: historical political \u0026amp; military, Memoirs\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780857058553\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe beloved poet's memoir of his mother that flows backwards through time, and through a tumultuous period of European history - a tender and yet unsparing autobiographical journey.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Photographer at Sixteen spools into the past, through her exile in England, her flight with her husband and two young boys from Hungary in 1956 and her time in two concentration camps, her girlhood as an ambitious photographer, and the unknowable fate of her vanished family in Transylvania. The woman who emerges - with all her contradictions - is utterly captivating. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat were the terrors and obsessions that drove her? The Photographer at Sixteen reveals a life from the depths of its final days to the comparable safety of its childhood.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is a book born of curiosity, of guilt and of love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35022867726489,"sku":"9780857058553","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780857058553.jpg?v=1602536219","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780857058553","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}