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Trieste, January 2014
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
January 2014
On Sale: January 14, 2014
368 pages
ISBN: 0547725140
EAN: 9780547725147
Kindle: B00AUZS5LG
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Haya Tedeschi sits alone in Gorizia, in northeastern Italy,
surrounded by a basket of photographs and newspaper
clippings. Now an old woman, she waits to be reunited after
sixty-two years with her son, fathered by an SS officer and
stolen from her by the German authorities as part of
Himmler’s clandestine Lebensborn project.
Haya reflects on her Catholicized Jewish family’s
experiences, dealing unsparingly with the massacre of
Italian Jews in the concentration camps of Trieste. Her
obsessive search for her son leads her to photographs, maps,
and fragments of verse, to testimonies from the Nuremberg
trials and interviews with second-generation Jews, and
to eyewitness accounts of atrocities that took place on
her doorstep. From this broad collage of material and
memory arises the staggering chronicle of Nazi
occupation in northern Italy. Written in
immensely powerful language and employing a range of
astonishing conceptual devices, Trieste is a novel
like no other. Daša Drndić has produced a shattering
contribution to the literature of twentieth-century
history.
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