Ghita Schwarz's novel <em>Displaced Persons</em>

The Leonard Lopate Show | Aug 26, 2010

Ghita Schwarz discusses her debut novel, Displaced Persons. The story moves from the Allied zones of postwar Germany to New York City, and explores grief and anger, memory and survival, and the experiences of "displaced persons" struggling to remake their lives in the decades after World War II.

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