A review by jessebalster
Sie kam aus Mariupol by Natascha Wodin

4.0

Wodin tells intimate stories of different lives lived in the past age by uncovering and narrating the history of her family. The first stories feel cold and factual, dealing mostly with distant relatives. But as the stories come closer to the life of Wodins mother, the facts get supplemented with what she heard and fantasized about her family as a child. In the final part history is not told from books and letters but from memory, placing the drama of one family into the grand perspective of previous generations and historical context.