El gueto interior

Buenos Aires, 1940. A group of Jewish exiles meet in a cafe. They are worried about what is happening in Europe. From the news in the newspapers it is difficult to unravel the entanglement and the letters that come to them from the family in Warsaw are becoming more and more disturbing. An autobiographical novel in which Santiago Amigorena reconstructs the story of his Jewish grandfather's exile and recreates the helplessness and guilt that gripped him when he learned how the Holocaust had struck his family. A novel, then, about the progressive confinement of a man in horror, about how silences are formed in a family and about the condition of the exile, doomed to live in an inner ghetto. The literary novel of the French reentry. Winner of the Nancy-Le Point Booksellers Prize and finalist in the Goncourt, the Renaudot, the Decembre and the Médicis.