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Mischling
Affinity Konar
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Description for Mischling
Hardback. Garlanded with feverish quotes from Pulitzer Prize winners to Man Booker nominees, Mischling is an astonishing, bold imagining of Auschwitz and those small moments of hope and beauty that light the dark. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 218 x 34. Weight in Grams: 524.
It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele's Zoo, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others, and they find themselves changed, stripped of the personalities they once shared, their identities altered by the burdens of guilt and pain. That winter, at a concert orchestrated by Mengele, Pearl disappears. Stasha grieves for ... Read more
It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele's Zoo, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others, and they find themselves changed, stripped of the personalities they once shared, their identities altered by the burdens of guilt and pain. That winter, at a concert orchestrated by Mengele, Pearl disappears. Stasha grieves for ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786490841
SKU
V9781786490841
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About Affinity Konar
Affinity Konar was raised in California. She is a graduate of Columbia University's MFA program.
Reviews for Mischling
Konar has woven a masterful and poignant account of a pair of twin sisters who cannot be separated, even by the cruelest hand of fate. Her prose is mystical and delicately poetic, and she uses her manifold gifts to tell a deeply engaging story of fortitude and triumph
Lucette Lagnado, author of CHILDREN OF THE FLAMES and THE MAN ... Read more
Lucette Lagnado, author of CHILDREN OF THE FLAMES and THE MAN ... Read more