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    Beautiful Pictures of the Lost Homeland

    By Mia Gallagher

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    Visitors are reminded that they are about to enter the Wunderkammer, a floating chamber where normal spacetime conventions no longer apply…' A bomb blast in the London Underground rips through space and time, unearthing four stories that whirl, collide and pass each other by. Sometime around now, Georgia Madden (who used to be Georgie) flees her Dublin home, embarking on a road trip spiked with the hidden dangers of her past and her present. In the 1970s, as the Madden family begins to disintegrate, a disruptive stranger arrived who will bind them, briefly. While the underground bomb ticks down, an elderly German woman, Anna Bauer, recounts her own war story to a film crew. And all along, fizzing and popping in a parallel reality, we, the ‘visitors’, are led through an unsettling and volatile Museum of Curiosities. The past crosses and weaves with the present; generations are bound together and cleaved apart; future selves remember and forget who they once were. Forgiveness is sought, offered and withheld – and as they unspool, the fragmented lives of four people become a haunting whole, where time is unknowable.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew Island Books
    Release dateApr 22, 2016
    ISBN9781848405080
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      This book is incredible. I was impressed most by the parallel drawn between the arbitrariness of nationhood assignment and the arbitrariness of gender assignment, and the gravely serious (potentially deadly) consequences of each. Flipping between the writing styles for each character/mode of narrative felt effortless.

      I picked up this book because I heard the author's interview on Jessa Crispin's podcast, and she discussed the challenge of researching the ethnic cleansing of Germans from Czechoslovakia after WWII, information that comes through in the novel in an interview with Anna Bauer, a Sudeten German woman who fled to England. My family is also ethnically German (Donauschwaben) and was expelled from Yugoslavia (now Serbia) under a similar nationalist program during the same time period. I've never read a novel that addresses the experiences of this population, and it was gratifying to read about the larger significance of this huge piece of my family's story in such a compassionate, intellectual, ambitious novel.