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Inge's War - A Story of Family, Secrets and Survival under Hitler (Paperback)
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Inge's War - A Story of Family, Secrets and Survival under Hitler (Paperback)
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Loot Price R365
Discovery Miles 3 650
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'A lyrical, engrossing and essential read' - Sathnam Sanghera 'A
superbly nuanced reclamation of history and family secrets' - Brian
Van Reet, author of Spoils What does it mean to be on the wrong
side of history? Svenja O'Donnell's beautiful, aloof grandmother
Inge never spoke about the past. All her family knew was that she
had grown up in a city that no longer exists on any map:
Koenigsberg in East Prussia, a footnote in history, a place that
almost no one has heard of today. But when Svenja impulsively
visits this windswept Baltic city, something unlocks in Inge and,
finally, she begins to tell her story. It begins in the secret jazz
bars of Hitler's Berlin. It is a story of passionate first love,
betrayal, terror, flight, starvation and violence. As Svenja teases
out the threads of her grandmother's life, retracing her steps all
over Europe, she realises that there is suffering here on a scale
that she had never dreamt of. And finally, she uncovers a
desperately tragic secret that her grandmother has been keeping for
sixty years. Inge's War listens to the voices that are often
missing from our historical narrative - those of women caught up on
the wrong side of history. It is a book about memory and heritage
that interrogates the legacy passed down by those who survive. It
also poses the questions: who do we allow to tell their story? What
do we mean by family? And what will we do in order to survive?
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