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Angel of Oblivion by Maja Haderlap
5.0
"The Angel of Oblivion must have forgotten to wipe the traces of the past from my memory".
The autobiographical story of Maja Haderlap tells the reader about her childhood in the region of Carinthia, Austria. Her family is of Slovenian origin and during the Second World War all the dear people of not-yet-born Maja were heavily oppressed, in one way or another.
Grandmother tells little Maja stories from the concentration camp, her Father has a posttraumatic disorder because of being a partisan in the age of 12. The whole town of Lepena has a permanent memory of all the horrors that happened to the Slovenian-speakers in those terrific times.
A very hard book. The violence that national socialism has made to people cannot be described in words.
The autobiographical story of Maja Haderlap tells the reader about her childhood in the region of Carinthia, Austria. Her family is of Slovenian origin and during the Second World War all the dear people of not-yet-born Maja were heavily oppressed, in one way or another.
Grandmother tells little Maja stories from the concentration camp, her Father has a posttraumatic disorder because of being a partisan in the age of 12. The whole town of Lepena has a permanent memory of all the horrors that happened to the Slovenian-speakers in those terrific times.
A very hard book. The violence that national socialism has made to people cannot be described in words.