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A searing, personal examination into the shifting terrain of war and memory that seeks to understand how nations come to terms with their most painful history. How do countries reinvent themselves after cataclysmic events? Why is it that many countries can't lay the past to rest? And how do the men and women who are being asked to forget-and at times forgive-react to the various measures their countries take? With these questions in mind, Erna Paris takes us on an incredible journey that spans four continents. Combining gripping storytelling with sharp observations, Paris travels the world to investigate areas where past conflict still resonates. We travel with her through the United States, with its long-buried memory of slavery; to South Africa, to sit in on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's attempts to heal the divisions of apartheid; to Japan, France, and Germany and the unresolved pain of Hiroshima and the Holocaust; and to the former Yugoslavia where she exposes the cynical shaping of historical memory. Paris takes us directly to the places of reckoning-from courtrooms to concentration camps, to villages on the banks of the Mississippi. She interviews those in power, as well as the ordinary people who grapple daily with what is often the most defining event of their lives. And even in such bleak circumstances, Erna Paris finds hope in the way people are coming to terms with their past and in the changing face of international justice. Evocatively written, her journey illuminates a subject that will only become more crucial as we move into the twenty-first century. ............................................................................ Read an Excerpt
............................................................................ Related LinksLong Shadows (hardcover) on RandomHouse.ca Long Shadows (trade paperback) on RandomHouse.ca Canada Association for Learning and Preserving the History of WWII in Asia Global Alliance for Preserving the History of World War Two in Asia Yoshiyuki Masaki, educator and human rights activist, Japan ............................................................................ EditionsCANADA: Knopf Canada, October 2000, CANADA (paperback): Vintage Canada, October 2001, GERMANY: Vergangenheit Verstehen: Wahrheit, Lügen und Erinnerung, Propyläen Verlag, October 2000, UNITED STATES: Bloomsbury USA, June 2001 UNITED STATES (paperback): Bloomsbury USA, May 2002, ISBN 1582342105 BRITAIN: Bloomsbury, April 2001, BRITAIN (paperback): Bloomsbury, June 2002, Braille edition, March, 2003 CROATIA, Prometej Publishers, November, 2003 JAPAN: Shakai Hyoron Sha, August, 2004 SARAJEVO: Prometej Publishers, November, 2004 BULGARIA: Paradox Publishing Group, November, 2007 |
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