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1 online resource (359 pages) : illustrations |
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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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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An old Italian woman seeks a reunion with her son, fathered by an SS officer and taken away by German authorities sixty-two years ago, while she remembers and discusses the atrocities committed in Northern Italy during World War II. |
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German Occupation of Italy (1943-1945) |
| Chronological Term |
1943-1945 |
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Jewish women -- Italy -- Fiction.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction.
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Mothers and sons -- Fiction.
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Mothers and sons -- Italy -- Fiction.
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Jewish women. |
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Mothers and sons. |
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Italy -- History -- 1914-1945 -- Fiction.
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Italy -- History -- German occupation, 1943-1945 -- Fiction.
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Italy. |
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Historical fiction.
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Fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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History.
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Electronic books. |
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Historical fiction.
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| Added Author |
Elias-Bursać, Ellen, translator.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Drndić, Daša, 1946- Trieste London : MacLehose Press, Quercus, 2012 (DLC) 2012379987 |
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Drndić, Daša, 1946- Trieste Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014 9780547725147 (DLC) 2013044258 (OCoLC)823044643 |
| ISBN |
9780547725819 : $14.99 |
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0547725817 : $14.99 |
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