{"product_id":"the-photographer-at-sixteen-9780857058553","title":"The Photographer at Sixteen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA poet's memoir of his mother that flows backwards through time, through a tumultuous period of European history - a tender and yet unsparing autobiographical journey.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e**A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK**\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA truly remarkable book . . . fiercely compelling EDMUND DE WAAL\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e*WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE* \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e*SHORTLISTED FOR THE JEWISH WINGATE PRIZE*\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eI've read no memoir that moved me more MIRANDA SEYMOUR\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe writing is always scrupulous . . . [a] compelling memoir BLAKE MORRISON\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeautifully written and utterly compelling \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn original, probingly thoughtful memoir EVA HOFFMANN\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn July 1975, Magda Szirtes died in the ambulance on the way to hospital after she had tried to take her own life. She was fifty-one years old. \u003ci\u003eThe Photographer at Sixteen \u003c\/i\u003espools into the past, through her exile in England, her flight with her husband and two young boys from Hungary in 1956 and her time in two concentration camps, her girlhood as an ambitious photographer, and the unknowable fate of her vanished family in Transylvania. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The woman who emerges - with all her contradictions - is utterly captivating. What were the terrors and obsessions that drove her? \u003ci\u003eThe Photographer at Sixteen \u003c\/i\u003ereveals a life from the depths of its final days to the comparable safety of its childhood. It is a book born of curiosity, of guilt and of love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Quercus Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/28\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780857058553\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240","brand":"George Szirtes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42114585559221,"sku":"9780857058553","price":15.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_bd721085-e71d-4b7a-938d-9646d0ab6590.jpg?v=1652152267","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-photographer-at-sixteen-9780857058553","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}