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Liv's Secrets
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781956450507
Publisher: Armin Lear Press
Published: Apr 17 2023
Pages: 428
Weight: 1.38
Height: 0.95 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Sharpeville, South Africa, 1960. A young, white woman whose family survived the burning of villages and killings of Jews in pogroms in Lithuania in the 1880s, must decide: keep her silence-or join the fight against apartheid.
The Weisz family fled Lithuania with nothing but a vow to never again be victims of discrimination and violent oppression. Three decades later, that promise has carried their descendants across oceans to the sun-scorched streets of Johannesburg-where freedom for black people is measured in passbooks, and dissent is a potential death sentence.
Liv Weisz believed her family had already paid for their freedom, but when the Sharpeville massacre leaves the township streets with sixty-nine bodies shot in the back and a nation on edge, remaining silent becomes a luxury she can no longer afford.
Drawn into the underground resistance of the anti-apartheid movement, Liv discovers she has her family's skills at survival learned in Europe decades earlier; but that becoming invisible is not just a survival tactic but also a weapon. In 1960s South Africa, her home now a safe house, her life is no safer than that for her grandmothers in the shtetl.
Liv's Secrets, a sweeping multi-generational family saga spanning 20th century South African history from the Lithuanian shtetls to the townships of Johannesburg is a must read for fans of among others, historical family sagas like the Covenant of Water, Pachinko, and Homegoing.
Some prices for freedom are paid in blood. Some in everything you were before.
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