Trieste

Viac o knihe

Haya Tedeschi sits alone in Gorizia, north-eastern Italy, waiting to be reunited, after fifty-two years, with her son. He was fathered by a S.S officer and stolen from her by the German authorities during the war. Haya's reflections on her family's experiences deal with unsparingly with the massacre of Italian Jews in the concentration camp at Treiste. Her obsessive search for her son leads her to photographs, maps, fragments of verse, to testimonies from the Nuremberg Trials and interviews with second-generation Jews, as well as witness accounts of atrocities that took place on the doorstep