Event Details
calendar_todayThursday 10 October 2024
schedule 5:30PM - 7:00PM
location_onScorpio Books, 120 Hereford Street, Ōtautahi | Christchurch
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About the Event
Canterbury University Press and Scorpio Books warmly invite you to the launch of Lily, Oh Lily: Searching for a Nazi ghost by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman.
Jeffrey will be in conversation with Morrin Rout.
All welcome, refreshments provided.
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About the book
What if the dead never feel to us that they have gone? If family stories, fragments of their lives, continue to nag and haunt us? Lily Hasenburg was just such a figure in Holman’s growing years. She was whispered into his ear by his grandmother – stories of her older sister, who married and moved to Germany at the turn of the 20th century, and was later caught up in the Nazi web spun by Adolf Hitler. Unable to shake loose this story, Holman pursued her to Berlin, Hamburg and Dresden. This is an account of that pilgrimage.
