Give Us This Day: A Memoir of Family and Exile

Author(s): Helena Wisniewska Brow

Biography/Memoir

In June 1944, when 14-year-old Stefan Wisniewski stood by his mother's dusty Tehran grave, he knew his world was about to change again, forever. Give Us This Day: a Memoir of Family and Exile explores the story of one of the 732 Polish child survivors of wartime Soviet deportation offered unlikely refuge in New Zealand. Seventy years later, and no closer to a longed-for Polish homecoming, Stefan's New Zealand-born daughter revisits his past. What is the burden her father has carried all these years? And why is he unable - or unwilling - to let it go? With an aging father and the ghost of a namesake aunt as her guides, Helena Wisniewska Brow searches for meaning in the family lives shaped by exile: her father's, her mother's and her own.


Product Information

Helena Wisniewska Brow, the winner of the 2013 Adam Prize, is a writer and former journalist who lives in Wellington.

General Fields

  • : 9780864739681
  • : 82249
  • : Victoria University Press
  • : October 2014
  • : 210mm X 138mm
  • : New Zealand
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Helena Wisniewska Brow
  • : Hardback
  • : very good
  • : 256
  • : b/w and colour illustrations