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As a child growing up in the once-beautiful city of Budapest, Anna Porter’s grandfather told her stories of heroes and strife and survival, some as old as the Carpathian basin, some still holding the sting of recent war and hardship. Some were fanciful, most were true, and all gave her a personal sense of history, both national and familial. This compulsively readable saga blends one family’s story with that of its homeland during one of the 20th century’s most tumultuous periods.
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Anna Porter spent her early childhood in Hungary. Her family fled after the 1956 revolution, and she lived in New Zealand before coming to Canada in 1969. The founder and publisher of Key Porter Books, she is the author of three crime novels and an acclaimed memoir, The Storyteller. Her most recent book, Kasztner's Train, won the Canadian Jewish Book Award and the Nereus Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize. Since 2007, she has been writing about Central Europe for Maclean's and The Globe and Mail. She lives in Toronto.
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"Luminously melancholy...haunting and powerful...a feat of magic." (Globe & Mail)
"A superb book; finely written, embracing in its vision, and full of the little touches that make good memoirs come alive." (The Edmonton Journal)
"The Storyteller shows that great storytellers are both born and made. Like grandfather, like granddaughter." (Chatelaine)
"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)
"A superb book; finely written, embracing in its vision, and full of the little touches that make good memoirs come alive." (The Edmonton Journal)
"The Storyteller shows that great storytellers are both born and made. Like grandfather, like granddaughter." (Chatelaine)
"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)
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- PublisherAnchor Canada
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1553652207
- ISBN 13 9781553652205
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages374
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