Mischling
Roman
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- CHF 18.00
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- CHF 18.00
Beschreibung des Verlags
Eine Seele in zwei Körpern – Perle und Stasia sind zwölf und unzertrennlich, als sie 1944 deportiert werden. Doktor Mengele sucht eineiige Zwillinge für seinen "Zoo". Um zu überleben, flüchten sich die Geschwister in magische Welten, schmeicheln sich sogar beim Arzt ein. Doch eines Tages, kurz vor der Befreiung, verschwindet Perle und ein unheilbarer Riss geht durch Stasia. Zusammen mit Feliks, einem weiteren Opfer Mengeles, reist sie durch die verwüsteten Landschaften Polens auf der Suche nach ihrer Schwester. In der eindringlichen Sprache eines Märchens behauptet Affinity Konars „Mischling“ noch im Abgrund des Grauens die Kraft der Fantasie, des Widerstands und der Hoffnung.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Without sentimentality, Konar's gripping novel explores the world of the children who were the subjects of Nazi doctor Josef Mengele's horrifying experiments at Auschwitz. Stasha and Pearl, 12-year-old Jewish sisters from Poland, are placed in Mengele's "zoo" because they are twins, rather than being sent to the gas chambers. Stasha is impulsive, a little melancholy, and given to storytelling; Pearl is more restrained and observant, and less dependent on her sister. Mengele selects one of the sisters to torture and uses the other as a control in his experiment. The two narrate alternating chapters of their story, which begins when they are sent to the camp in the autumn of 1944. The latter part takes the novel into the chaotic months after Auschwitz was abandoned, when some of the inmates were set on a death march and others were liberated by the Allies. Konar neatly avoids making Mengele the center of attention, instead focusing on the girls and the people they meet in the zoo, including brash, mouthy Bruna; conflicted Dr. Miri, a Jewish physician conscripted to work for "Uncle Doctor" Mengele; and messenger boy Peter, whose affection for Pearl threatens the closeness of the twins. Konar makes every sentence count; it's to her credit that the girls never come across as simply victims: they're flawed, memorable characters trying to stay alive. This is a brutally beautiful novel.
