The English Bookshop and the Oxford University Nordic Society invites you to an evening with author Julie Lindahl presenting her book, "The Pendulum"
Is it possible to draw a line under history, particularly when that history involves our families? If we accept that there are certain essential things about the past that cannot be spoken of, does that impact us and the generations that follow? If we choose to delve into that history, are we prepared to face the consequences? These are among the issues taken up by The Pendulum, an autobiographical account of a Brazilian-born granddaughter who faces each of these questions, and eventually finds that she has no choice but to look into her family?s past and the part it played in National Socialism and the SS.
With this book, Lindahl demonstrates why, within the vast majority of families seventy years after the end of the Second World War, the painful work of facing the past has only just begun.
Julie Lindahl holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Wellesley College, was a Fulbright scholar in Germany and holds a Master of Philosophy in International Relations from Oxford University. During her research she was named Honorary Research Associate of University College London in connection with its ongoing work on reverberations of war in Germany and Europe since 1945. She is also a recipient of the Stevens Traveling Fellowship 2015?2016 from Wellesley College which has generously agreed to support her ongoing research work.
Julie is founder of Stories for Society, a non-profit which works with storytelling for social transformation.