Mischling

Fås i anden udgave. Isbn: 9788712057833 De 12-årige tvillingesøstre Pearl og Stasha ankommer sammen med deres mor og bedstefar til Auschwitz i 1944. Pigerne bliver en del af gruppen af forsøgsmennesker kendt som ’Mengeles Zoo’ og oplever både privilegier og ubeskrivelige rædsler. Da Pearl pludselig forsvinder, sørger Stasha over sin tvilling, men hun klynger sig til muligheden for, at Pearl stadig er i live. Da lejren befries af Den Røde Hær, drager hun og hendes følgesvend Feliks – en ung dreng opsat på hævn for sin egen forsvundne tvilling – igennem det krigshærgede Polen. Undervejs må de overvinde hungersnød, kvæstelser og fjendtlige landsbyboere, som også er underlagt efterkrigstidens kaos. Men de er drevet af håbet om, at Mengele vil blive fanget og bragt for retten. Skridt for skridt indser de unge overlevende, at krigen har forandret Europa, og de må gradvist lære at forestille sig, at livet trods alt kan leves i de sønderbombede omgivelser, krigen har efterladt. Mischling er en af den slags romaner, der er så smukt skrevet, at den både griber læserens tanker og følelser, og den er en påmindelse om, at der selv i en verden af ondskab altid er et lille lys i mørket – en påmindelse der er så aktuel som nogensinde i vor tids Europa. ”Med sin gribende skildring af to tvillingesøstres kamp for at overleve krigens rædsler taler Mischling særligt til læsere med forkærlighed for dramatiske slægtsromaner som Alt det lys vi ikke ser , Drageløberen og Pigen uden navn . … én af årets mest rystende, stærke og fantastiske bøger. ” Sådan beskriver bestseller-forfatteren Anthony Doerr denne uafrystelige Holocaust-roman.

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 her twin, but clings to the possibility that Pearl remains alive. When the camp is liberated by the Red Army, she and her companion Feliks - a boy bent on vengeance for his own lost twin - travel through Poland's devastation. Undeterred by injury, starvation, or the chaos around them, motivated by equal parts danger and hope, they encounter hostile villagers, Jewish resistance fighters, and fellow refugees, their quest enabled by the notion that Mengele may be captured and brought to justice within the ruins of the Warsaw Zoo. As the young survivors discover what has become of the world, they must try to imagine a future within it.

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 her twin, but clings to the possibility that Pearl remains alive. When the camp is liberated by the Red Army, she and her companion Feliks - a boy bent on vengeance for his own lost twin - travel through Poland's devastation. Undeterred by injury, starvation, or the chaos around them, motivated by equal parts danger and hope, they encounter hostile villagers, Jewish resistance fighters, and fellow refugees, their quest enabled by the notion that Mengele may be captured and brought to justice within the ruins of the Warsaw Zoo. As the young survivors discover what has become of the world, they must try to imagine a future within it.