Maybe Esther
Petrowskaja, Katja
1970-
creator
text
enk
2018
monographic
eng
ger
viii, 254 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Katja Petrowskaja's family story is inextricably entangle from 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-grandmother - whose name may or may not have been Esther - who 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 yokes, 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 Esther - a singular, haunting , unforgettable work of literature. Front cover.
Katja Petrowskaja ; translated from the German by Shelley Frisch.
Petrowskaja, Katja
1970-
Family
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Europe
History
20th century
940.50922
9780008245283 (hbk.) :
9780008245306 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
StDuBDS
171026
20220127154752.0
eld018592488
eng