Summer At Gaglow
Summer At Gaglow by Esther Freud, published by HarperCollins on July 10, 1999, is a work of fiction comprising 256 pages. The narrative follows Sarah, a woman in her late twenties navigating her acting career in London while expecting a child. Upon learning about her family’s grand East German estate, Gaglow, which was seized before the war, she seeks to uncover its history and significance from her father.
The story alternates between Sarah’s contemporary life and her grandmother’s childhood during the First World War, exploring themes of family legacy and historical loss. Readers will encounter the lives of Sarah’s ancestors, including her father, Wolf Belgard, a Jewish grain dealer, and the complex dynamics within the family, including the three sisters and their governess. Summer At Gaglow delves into the connections across generations, revealing the impact of place and time on personal histories.
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Sarah is already in her late twenties with an acting career in London and a baby on the way when she learns from her father about Gaglow, his family’s grand East German country estate that was seized before the war. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the estate will now come back to them.
Sarah attempts to solicit from her father all he knows about Gaglow: the three lucky sisters, Bina, Martha, and Eva; their masterly governess, Fraulein Schulze; their father, Wolf Belgard, a prosperous Jewish grain dealer; their mother, Marianna, a “vulgar woman” whose children privately mocked her; and their older brother, Emanuel, wretched from the family to serve his country.
Alternating between Sarah’s life and her grandmother’s childhood during the First World War, Summer at Gaglow unites four generations of an extraordinary family across the vast reaches of silence, place, loss, and time.
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