Simon & Schuster, Sachbücher, When Time Stopped (Englisch, Ariana Neumann, 2021)

KRAUS FAMILY AWARD WINNER FOR BEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR AT THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS WINNER OF THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE &lsquo,Beautifully told', ,John le Carré, , , , , ,&lsquo,More than just history&rsquo, Michael Palin &lsquo,Truly exceptional&rsquo, Jon Snow , , , , ,&lsquo,Absolutely remarkable&rsquo, Edmund de Waal , In this remarkably moving memoir, Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father&rsquo,s past: years spent hiding in plain sight in wartorn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew. &lsquo,The darkest shadow is beneath the candle.&rsquo, As a child in Venezuela, Ariana Neumann is fascinated by the enigma of her father, who appears to be the epitome of success and strength, but who wakes at night screaming in a language she doesn&rsquo,t recognise. Then, one day, she finds an old identity document bearing his picture &ndash, but someone else&rsquo,s name. From a box of papers her father leaves for her when he dies, Ariana meticulously uncovers the extraordinary truth of his escape from Nazi-occupied Prague. She follows him across Europe and reveals his astonishing choice to assume a fake identity and live out the war undercover, spying for the Allies in Berlin &ndash, deep in the &lsquo,darkest shadow&rsquo,. Having known nothing of her father&rsquo,s past, not even that he was Jewish, Ariana&rsquo,s detective work also leads to the shocking discovery that a total of twenty-five members of the Neumann family were murdered by the Nazis. Spanning nearly ninety years and crossing oceans, When Time Stopped is a powerful and beautifully wrought memoir in which Ariana comes to know the family that has been lost &ndash, and, ultimately, her own beloved father.