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by Jenni Daiches
Rosa Roshkin is five years old when her family are murdered in a pogrom and she is forced to leave behind everything she knows with only a suitcase of clothes and her father's violin.
Somewhere Else is an epic generational novel about womanhood and Judaeo-Scottish experience across two World Wars, the creation of Israel and the fall of the Berlin Wall. A novel which explores today's most difficult and urgent questions, not least of which: how to find identity in displacement.
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Jenni Daiches is the name under which literary historian Jenni Calder writes novels and poetry.
She was born in the USA, educated in the US and England, and has lived and worked in Scotland since 1971. She worked at the National Museum of Scotland in various capacities from 1978 to 2001. Both before and since she has worked as a freelance writer and lecturer.
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