Nome canonico: Milton, Edith
Data di nascita: 1932
Sesso: female
Nazionalità: Germany (birth)
USA
Luogo di nascita: Karlsruhe, Germany
Luogo di residenza: Francetown, New Hampshire, USA
Attività lavorative: novelist
freelance writer
Holocaust survivor
memoirist
essayist
Breve biografia: Edith Milton, née Cohn, was born to a Jewish family in Karlsruhe, Germany. In 1939, on the eve of Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland, the seven-year-old and her sister Ruth were rescued from Germany on a Kindertransport, the train convoy that gave refuge to some 10,000 Jewish children in England. The two girls were sheltered by a British foster family with whom they lived for the next seven years. Edith later emigrated to the USA and became a freelance writer and novelist living in California and New Hampshire. Her writing has appeared in, among other places, the New York Times Book Review, New Republic, and Boston Globe. She is the author of the 1968 novel Corridors. Edith chronicled her childhood experiences in The Tiger in the Attic: Memories of the Kindertransport and Growing Up English, published in 2005.

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The tiger in the attic : memories of the Ki… di Edith Milton

Tiger in the Attic was a great story told from the viewpoint of Edith Milton. Just eight years old, she travels with her sister Ruth from Karlsruhe to England as part of the Kindertransport shortly before the beginning of the war. There the two of them lived with the Harveys and their two daughters who were between Edith and Ruth in age.. There is not a lot about the Kindertransport here but rather a great deal about learning to be English and about everyday life in England during wartime. Meanwhile, some other members of their family, including their mother, had managed to make their way to the U.S. So, the last part of the book covered the girls' journey to New York after the war and the author's adjustment to still a third culture.

The story is entertainingly told and may be one of my best books of the year as well as a quick and easy read. Not a "just the facts" recitation but told as the memories would naturally surface with a digression here and there and a bit about how the adult Edith came to interpret her memories. She also carefully points out how unreliable some memories can be after so many decades.

Recommended.… (altro)

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hailelib | 5 altre recensioni | Dec 18, 2013 |

The Tiger in the Attic: Memories of the Kind… di Edith Milton

Too long like most books but interesting from point of view of memory and what is and isn't recalled. Germany and the horrors of World War II lurk in the background throughout.

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jon1lambert | 5 altre recensioni | Sep 18, 2010 |

The Tiger in the Attic: Memories of the Kind… di Edith Milton

The title of this book is misleading. They should have just said "Memories of Growing Up English" and left out the part about the Kindertransport. Although the author and her sister did arrive in England from Germany on the Kindertransport, they had a deeply ordinary childhood with an upper-middle-class English family, and the Holocaust is barely touched upon. Although this book is well-written (almost poetic) and good for conveying the atmosphere of everyday life in England during World War II, I hadn't been looking for a book about everyday life in England during World War II and I found it boring and barely finished it. It's a good enough book but not my cup of tea.… (altro)

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meggyweg | 5 altre recensioni | Mar 6, 2009 |

The Tiger in the Attic: Memories of the Kind… di Edith Milton

I began thinking that this book would describe the "transport" but of course, that wouldn't even take a chapter. As I read further, I became more and more fascinated at the way Milton was able to look at herself and the persons in her life beyond the appearances all of us project.

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kaulsu | 5 altre recensioni | Jun 6, 2008 |

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