Awake in the dark

23 October 2006

Eurocorrespondent's Michael Standaert talks to Jewish author Shira Nayman for Nextbook. The women in Awake in the Dark, Shira Nayman's debut collection of stories, seek answers to their existential questions in their parents' lives. An Orthodox mother learns that a treasured gift from her father was taken from a baby whose death he witnessed in a concentration camp. When an American professor takes up residence in her childhood home in Heidelberg, she discovers a hidden crawl space—and finds that she's not exactly who she thought she was. Nayman, a psychologist, peels away layers of identity, leaving exposed her characters' secrets and the hidden parental pasts that have shaped them. Read the article in full at Nextbook.

 

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