She grows attached to Gregor's parents, Joseph and Herta, and comes to enjoy the country quiet. Exiled to her in-laws' house in Gross-Partsch, Rosa sees herself and her new life with the keen eye of an outsider. Reflective and somewhat detached, she recounts her childhood in Berlin, her courtship and eventual marriage to her boss, Gregor (now fighting at the front among thousands of other German men), and her mother's death in a bombing raid. Rosa Sauer, Postorino's narrator, doesn't quite fit in with the other tasters. Inspired by the real-life account of one taster, who told her story many years later, Italian novelist Rosella Postorino imagines the tasters' experience in her compelling fourth novel, At the Wolf's Table. Ten women from the nearby village of Gross-Partsch were driven to the Wolfsschanze each day, made to eat the vegetarian meals prepared for Hitler, then wait an hour to ensure that the Führer's food was safe to consume. Increasingly paranoid that his enemies would find a way to sneak contaminated food into the Wolfsschanze, his heavily guarded headquarters in East Prussia, he conscripted a handful of young women to serve as food tasters. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.Adolf Hitler famously feared death by poisoning. “A necessary book of great power that brings to mind Primo Levi’s The Drowned and the Saved and the finest Italian fiction.” “You’ll fly into this novel with your heart in your throat and a constant feeling of identification all the way through to the final, magnificent chapter.” “Masterful.A unique story in which every reader will see themselves reflected.” At the Wolf’s Table stays with you, and for a long time.” “This book―which speaks of love, hunger, survival and remorse―will end up engraved on your heart.” Her ability to beautifully convey feelings of guilt, shame, love and remorse in a single gesture is a sign that we will be hearing more from her.” At the Wolf’s Table is Postorino’s first novel to be translated into English from her native Italian. Winner of the Premio Campiello Literary Prize "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. As secrets and resentments grow, this unlikely sisterhood reaches its own dramatic climax, as everyone begins to wonder if they are on the wrong side of history. But one morning, the SS come to tell her she has been conscripted to be one of Hitler’s tasters: three times a day, she and nine other women go to his secret headquarters, the Wolf’s Lair, to eat his meals before he does.įorced to eat what might kill them, the tasters begin to divide into The Fanatics, those loyal to Hitler, and the women like Rosa who insist they aren’t Nazis, even as they risk their lives every day for Hitler’s. Impoverished and alone, she makes the fateful decision to leave war-torn Berlin to live with her in-laws in the countryside, thinking she’ll find refuge there. Germany, 1943: Twenty-six-year-old Rosa Sauer’s parents are gone, and her husband Gregor is far away, fighting on the front lines of World War II. A legion of hunters was out looking for him, and to get him in their grips they would gladly slay me as well. As hapless as Little Red Riding Hood, I had ended up in his belly. They called it the Wolfsschanze, the Wolf’s Lair. The international bestseller based on a haunting true story that raises provocative questions about complicity, guilt, and survival.
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