Alba Arikha has written a vivid and haunting coming-of-age memoir set in Paris in the 1980s. Her father was the artist, Avigdor Arikha; her mother the poet, Anne Atik; her godfather, Samuel Beckett. Their apartment/studio, where Alba and her sister grew up, was a hub of literary and artistic achievement, which still reverberates today. Alba's tale is played out against the family memories of war and exile and the ever present echoes of the European holocaust.
Praise for this book
"A fiercely honest and compelling account of what it is to grow up in an artistic household." - John Banville
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