House of Exile

House of Exile is a bold, inventive and often haunting threnody for European letters in a terrible century.

House of Exile by Evelyn Juers – review 2011

Collective biography, or meta-fiction, or shape-shifting tour de force, House of Exile begins and ends with the puzzling and strangely touching relationship of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger.

House of Exile by Evelyn Juers – review 2011

The ledge on which Juers has constructed House of Exile is a vertiginous place, without the safety rails of scholarly apparatus no index, for example but with a stunning, rather queasy-making, view.

House of Exile by Evelyn Juers – review 2011

Once the scent of jasmine replaces the stench of burning print and the story moves into the Californian sunshine, House of Exile inevitably becomes less a mesmerising elegy, more a catalogue of senescence.

House of Exile by Evelyn Juers – review 2011

House of Exile was first published in Australia in 2008, where it won the Prime Minister's Literacy Award.

NPR Topics: News 2011

Though the first 100 pages of House of Exile, a whimsical summation of Heinrich and Thomas' childhood, would indicate a straight-forward biography, the pith of the book is the remaining 300 pages - a detailed chronicle of the events that unfolded in Germany between 1933 and 1944.

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House of Exile was first published in Australia in 2008, where it won the Prime Minister's Literacy Award.

NPR Topics: News 2011

House of Exile was first published in Australia in 2008, where it won the Prime Minister's Literacy Award.

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House of Exile begins and ends with Nelly's suicide in the home she and Heinrich shared in Brentwood California in 1944.

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While House of Exile is nonfiction, there are moments where Juers has embellished the facts, most likely based on information from diary entries.

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