Keep saying their names

Resource Information

The work Keep saying their names represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Keep saying their names

Statement of responsibility

by Simon Stranger ; translated from the Norwegian by Matt Bagguley

Creator

• Stranger, Simon, 1976-

Contributor

• Bagguley, Matt, 1971-

Author

• Stranger, Simon, 1976-

Translator

• Bagguley, Matt, 1971-

Subject

• Germany, Geheime Staatspolizei | Sonderabteilung Lola -- Fiction
• Norway -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction
• Rinnan, Henry Oliver, 1915-1947 -- Fiction
• War criminals -- Fiction
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Fiction
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Norway -- Fiction
• Electronic books

Genre

• Fiction
• Electronic books

Language

• eng
• nor
• eng

Summary

"Inspired by historical events and by personal history, a shattering, exquisite double portrait of a Norwegian family savaged by World War II and of a man devoted to crimes against humanity, conjoined by an actual house of horrors they both called home. Once the Germans conquer Norway in 1940, they quickly discover a tremendous native asset: Henry Oliver Rinnan, a double agent so cruel and manipulative that he would become notorious as one of Norway's vilest traitors, second only to Quisling himself. In 1941, Rinnan and his gang set up headquarters in an unspectacular suburban house and transformed the cellar into a makeshift torture and death chamber reserved for Norwegian resisters. In the war's aftermath, this house became home to a Jewish-Norwegian couple still reeling from trauma. Here their two young daughters spend a happy childhood in the very same rooms where, only a few years before, some of the most heinous acts of the occupation had been committed. Many decades later, Simon Stranger married the daughter of one of those girls, and, learning the history of her family, soon realized that their story could not be told without including Rinnan's, provoking a plague of questions: What turned a bashful shoemaker's son into this despised criminal? How could a Jewish family have chosen to move into that house? And how could Stranger himself explain to his twenty-first century son this virtually inconceivable history, and what it means to be Jewish? He wrestles with these essential questions in this stunning novel, seamlessly melding fact and fiction, guiding us through five generations' worth of history, at once intimate and global, seeking to reveal how evil is born in some and courage in others. A tremendous contribution to the literature of the Second World War--focused tightly and specifically on a previously unseen corner of it--Keep Saying Their Names reveals core facets of the human psyche. This is an intimate, unforgettable account that compels us to confront the darkness of the past honestly and genuinely in order to build a better future for those we love"--

Member of

• Leksikon om iys og mørke

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

839.823/8

Index

no index present

LC call number

PT8952.29.T8

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries