Somewhere Else
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Scotland Street Press
Published:6th Sep '24
Should be back in stock very soon
An epic and moving historical novel about womanhood and Judaeo-Scottish experience.
Rosa Roshkin is five years old when her family are murdered in a pogrom and she is forced to leave behind everything she knows with only a suitcase of clothes and her father’s violin.
An epic generational novel about womanhood and Judaeo-Scottish experience across two World Wars, the creation of Israel and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Jenni Daiches’s Somewhere Else explores today’s most difficult and urgent questions, not least of which, how to find identity in displacement.
'An urgent exploration of the fragility and beauty of our shared humanity, here and elsewhere.' - Hannah Holtschneider, University of Edinburgh
'This poignant, sparely-written novel starts in a European past of pogroms, dispossession and cruelty, but it creeps cunningly into our ugly present-day. Jenni Daiches has astonishingly re-created a lost world, the story of so many who came from somewhere else and tried to make a life. The shadows she brings unerringly to life are the tale of my own paternal family. I wept and laughed and wished I had written it.' - Miriam Margolyes
- Winner of Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist 2025
ISBN: 9781910895955
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 20mm
Weight: 343g
328 pages