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The poignant, searching, haunting story of one familys entanglement with twentieth-century historyAN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Intensely involving a fervent meditation on love and loss, with a remarkable cast of characters Financial Times Rich, intriguing Maybe Esther calls to mind the itinerant style of W. G. Sebald Guardian Unflinchingly potent Revolutionaries, war heroes, teachers and phantoms populate these magnetic pages Irish IndependentKatja Petrowskajas family story is inextricably entangled with the history of twentieth-century Europe. There is her great-uncle, who shot a German diplomat in Moscow in 1932 and was sentenced to death. There is her Ukrainian grandfather, who disappeared during World War II and reappeared forty years later. And there is her great-grandmotherwhose name may or may not have been Estherwho was too old and frail to leave Kiev when the Jews there were rounded up, and was killed by a Nazi outside her house.Taking the reader from Berlin to Warsaw, to Moscow, to Kiev, from Google searches, strange encounters and coincidences to archives, anecdotes and jokes, Katja Petrowskaja undertakes a journey in search of her own place in past and present, memory and history, languages and countries. The result is Maybe Esthera singular, haunting, unforgettable work of literature.

• Book Type :

Religious Studies

• Book Binding :

Paperback

• Language :

English

• Number of Pages :

• ISBN - 10 :

0008245282

• Maybe Esther Published On :

Import, 8 Feb 2018

• Resource:

Religion, Religious Studies Books for Students, Teachers, Graudates, Professionals and all others

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