Synchronicity

Fractured Identities offers an unflinching look into the complexities of desire, identity, and survival within a Hungarian Jewish family during the crucible of the Second World War. Brace yourself for a harrowing psychosexual journey that confronts the limits of the human psyche and morality.At the story's center is an uncle - a Jungian psychiatrist - whose career is stifled under the oppressive Nazi regime. Bereft of his practice, he grapples with the dissolution of his professional identity. Opposite him is his wife, a once-successful actress and singer. Constrained by her Jewish heritage, she challenges both her own and her husband's sexual boundaries as a form of escape from the confinements of religious and societal norms.Their niece, prodigiously gifted and strikingly beautiful, is raised by her aristocratic, war-hero grandfather. Throughout the war, she faces a relentless assault on her body and mind. Her identity oscillates violently, from a vulnerable Jewish girl to a fierce supporter of Nazi ideology, even as her capacity for scientific innovation and acts of heroism grow. Yet she, too, cannot evade the war's corrosive ethical compromises.

Author: Daryl Chaste
Publisher: Austin Macauley
Published: 01/05/2024
Pages: 560
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.10lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.19d
ISBN: 9798889107507