Imprint: Arcadia
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781906413491
Price: £ £11.99
Pages: 0 pp
Date: 17 December 2009
‘This family history contains more engrossing material than many a novel. When our image of a period fades or is obscured by myths, such memories become indispensable’
Jüdische Allgemeine
‘A moving first-hand account of her friendship with Anne Frank’
The Times on My Name is Anne, She Said, Anne Frank
A lovely companion to what remains the most famous diary in the world - Weekend FT
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Inheriting Anne Frank
Jacqueline van Maarsen (About this author)
Translated from the Dutch by Brian Doyle
Jacqueline van Maarsen’s first book – My Name is Anne, She Said,
Anne Frank – ends in 1947, two years after the death of her close
friend Anne Frank. But Anne’s death did not spell the end of the
friendship. Otto Frank clung desperately to his deceased daughter’s
dearest friend. Having remained silent about her friendship with
Anne Frank for decades after the war, Jacqueline van Maarsen
finally decided to tell her story, hoping to expose half-truths and
fabrications surrounding her former friend and to respect Anne
Frank’s legacy for what it is. While her books have been written in
close cooperation with the Anne Frank Foundation, there are times
when she has felt obliged to disagree with the Foundation and she
has not shied away from confrontation.
In her second book, van Maarsen returns in detail to the most
dominant person in her life, her French mother who died in 1992
at the age of 101. The aftermath of an inheritance question in
France in which the author had an important role to play, takes on
tragic proportions, although the hilarity of the sometimes grotesque
situation surfaces now and then. Inheriting Anne Frank is the
continuation of Jacqueline van Maarsen’s My Name is Anne, She Said,
Anne Frank, and is an important documentary contribution to our
knowledge of Anne Frank and what happened to and on account of
her renowned diary. It is also a stirring portrait of a woman’s
turbulent life in the twentieth century.
More Books by this Author:
My Name is Anne, She Said, Anne Frank
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