A review by jamesrbgreen
Trieste by Daša Drndić

5.0

Deeply upsetting but riveting book. The history spills out across the continent from a relatively small, obscure focus. The fascists and the Nazis, their crimes, their victims, their evasion of justice, their literal offspring. Somehow everything is in here--including the basic facts you can neither avoid nor fully understand. It's neither novel nor history, but it's still one of the best books about the holocaust, and about complicity, I have read.