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INGES WAR - SVENJA ODONNELL KARTONIERT (TB)

'A lyrical  engrossing and essential read' - Sathnam Sanghera 'A superbly nuanced reclamation
of history and family secrets' - Brian Van Reet  author of SpoilsWhat does it mean to be on the
wrong side of history?Svenja O'Donnell's beautiful  aloof grandmother Inge never spoke about
the past. All her family knew was that she had grown up in a city that no longer exists on any
map: Königsberg in East Prussia  a footnote in history  a place that almost no one has heard of
today. But when Svenja impulsively visits this windswept Baltic city  something unlocks in Inge
and  finally  she begins to tell her story.It begins in the secret jazz bars of Hitler's
Berlin. It is a story of passionate first love  betrayal  terror  flight  starvation and
violence. As Svenja teases out the threads of her grandmother's life  retracing her steps all
over Europe  she realises that there is suffering here on a scale that she had never dreamt of.
And finally  she uncovers a desperately tragic secret that her grandmother has been keeping for
sixty years.Inge's War listens to the voices that are often missing from our historical
narrative - those of women caught up on the wrong side of history. It is a book about memory
and heritage that interrogates the legacy passed down by those who survive. It also poses the
questions: who do we allow to tell their story? What do we mean by family? And what will we do
in order to survive?

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