Pascale Hugues is a French writer and journalist who has reported for the French newspapers Libération and Le Point from Berlin for over 25 years. She also writes in numerous German publications and is a columnist for the daily newspaper Tagesspiegel. Hannah’s Dress was awarded the European Book Prize in 2015.
"Hugues brings the tumultuous twentieth century to vivid, messy
life through the memories of the men and women who lived in the
community. It's a testament to the human costs of catastrophe and
the resilience of ordinary people in the face of unthinkable
struggle."
Bridey Heing, Times Literary Supplement
"More than a one-place study, this engaging memoir reaches beyond
the blinds of a quiet Berlin street to provide a window into 20th
century German and world history via the prism of human
experience."
Family Tree Magazine
"This is a terrific book. Hugues writes very well and she has a
real eye for the killer vignette. Her gallery of characters is
engrossing and, in one or two cases, unforgettable. Hannah's Dress
will find an appreciative audience among all those interested in
the Holocaust and twentieth-century German history generally."
Brendan Simms, University of Cambridge
"This unusual memoir uses the author's personal experience living
in one street in Berlin as a window into the German past. She
reaches out to elderly Jewish Holocaust survivors and refugees
around the world who once lived on her street, and in her
sophisticated narrative she peels back the layers hiding individual
experiences so elusive to many professional historians."
Deborah Hertz, University of California at San Diego
"Hannah's Dress is a book that is both tender and bittersweet,
shocking and full of surprises. It is a unique, moving and very
well-written narrative that has justly been awarded the Simone Veil
Prize."
Elle
"Pascale Hugues' account of her street and its inhabitants is a
little wonder of a book."
Neue ZUrcher Zeitung
"Hannah's Dress is an endlessly fascinating unpicking and
re-weaving of history, a meticulously researched and hugely
affecting academic work with all the epic sweep and emotional heft
of the most engrossing of novels."
Irish Examiner
"A little gem"
History Today
"Captivating"
New European
"Hugues's book, which won the European Book Prize in 2014, is a
beautifully written miscellany of emblematic stories."
Literary Review
"Finely researched and lovingly written."
Financial Times
"This is a gentle, thoughtful and non-sensationalist account [...]
and certainly worth reading - irrespective of whether or not you
know Berlin."
Morning Star
"Move over Isherwood: Pascale Hugues has taken your storyteller
crown, proving the German truism that the best stories really are
lying around on the streets."
The Irish Times
"This is a terrific book. Hugues writes very well and she has a
real eye for the killer vignette. Her gallery of characters is
engrossing and, in one or two cases, unforgettable. Hannah's Dress
will find an appreciative audience among all those interested in
the Holocaust and twentieth-century German history generally." -
Brendan Simms, University of Cambridge
"This unusual memoir uses the author's personal experience living
in one street in Berlin as a window into the German past. She
reaches out to elderly Jewish Holocaust survivors and refugees
around the world who once lived on her street, and in her
sophisticated narrative she peels back the layers hiding individual
experiences so elusive to many professional historians." - Deborah
Hertz, University of California at San Diego
"Hannah's Dress is a book that is both tender and bittersweet,
shocking and full of surprises. It is a unique, moving and very
well-written narrative that has justly been awarded the Simone Veil
Prize." - Elle
"Pascale Hugues' account of her street and its inhabitants is a
little wonder of a book." - Neue ZUrcher Zeitung
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