No Goodbyes: A Father-Daughter Memoir of Love, War and ResurrectioniUniverse, 7 août 2009 - 332 pages When actress/playwright/author Naava Piatka interviews her Holocaust survivor father, Xavier Piat, she is amazed to hear such intimate, graphic revelations of family drama, political upheaval, sexual seduction, divorce, mass murder, betrayal and ultimate creative triumph. Soon, she is thrust into an epic saga of one man's journey through the shifting European landscape of Communism, Nazism, Zionism, Nationalism and immigration - where survival depends on luck, who you know, and finding the friend beneath the foe. From Russia to Lithuania, France to England, South Africa to the USA, Mr. Piat's recollections include a cast of colorful characters of political leaders and entertainers, with Menachem Begin, Kommandant Klee, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Molly Picon, Sol Hurok, Chayela Rosenthal, Maurice Chevalier, Marilyn Monroe and Danny Kaye. Reflecting on their complex father-daughter relationship, Naava discovers that her former god is a sentimental human, who emerged from the horrors of war and death camps, the sole survivor of his once large family. In entering his world, she begins to redefine her own. In confronting the past and retelling the stories, both father and daughter find new understanding, forgiveness and renewed connection. NO GOODBYES reminds us that we can connect through our stories, that suffering can turn into celebration, and that the power of family and love endures beyond death. |
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... find herself in real life family. When someone resembling a handsome young prince arrived on the scene, I promptly married him, traveled to distant shores, and naively cast myself in my own happily-ever-after story of wife and mother ...
... find us, to remind us that one person's memories belong to us all, for we are all connected, one to another, in ways we cannot fully understand. My father's stories, without my knowing, had already begun to cast their spell in another ...
... find out more about the person whose stories had so moved her. Finding the unique surname in the phone book, Christina called him and after just one conversation became a fast friend and fan. Reading the news of his sudden death several ...
... find my way home . I'll need a heart to listen without judgment , a brain to formulate the right questions , and courage to lift up the suffocating heavy rock of suffering . Isn't it the secret desire of every child of an abused parent ...
... find home. Perhaps my all-knowing father, the one whose die was cast, could cast his spell and spell it out for me. Twelve: Me, the One with my two parents. The Tribes of Israel, signs of the zodiac, months in a year, hours of a day ...
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