The Tribe

For generations, the Carraches have thrived as one of Salonica’s great Sephardic dynasties. In 1912, when Greece seizes the city from the Ottomans, they settle in France. Under the Nazi Occupation, the family scatters again: some flee, some go into hiding, and others vanish into the camps. Two decades later, as the Eichmann trial forces the world to confront the full truth of the Holocaust, the Carraches face their own reckoning, haunted not only by loss, but by the choices each made to survive.

Spanning five decades and three continents, The Tribe is a chronicle of homeland and exile. A work of commanding vision and searing emotional power, it charts the Carraches through romantic and sexual awakenings, personal betrayals and political upheavals, persecution, resilience and liberation. Epic in scope yet intimate in detail, it is both a family history and a portrait of a family shaped by history.