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Deviation / Luce D'Eramo ; translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel.
Van Pelt Library PQ4864.E685 D413 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- D'Eramo, Luce, 1925-2001, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Deviazione. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Women fascists.
- Germany.
- Women fascists--Germany--Fiction.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany--Fiction.
- Internment camps.
- Nazi concentration camps.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Autobiographical fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Fictional autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 347 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
- Summary:
- "First published in Italy in 1979, Luce D'Eramo's Deviation is a seminal work in Holocaust literature. It is a book that not only confronts evil head-on but expands that confrontation into a complex and intricately structured work of fiction, which has claims to standing among the greatest Italian novels of the twentieth century. Lucia is a young Italian girl from a bourgeois fascist family. In the early 1940s, when she first hears about the atrocities being perpetrated in the Nazi concentration camps, she is doubtful and confused, unable to reconcile such stories with the ideology in which she's been raised. Wanting to disprove these "slanders" on Hitler's Reich, she decides to see for herself, running away from home and heading for Germany, where she intends to volunteer as camp labor. The journey is a harrowing, surreal descent into hell, which finds Lucia confronting the stark and brutal realities of life under Nazi rule, a life in which continual violence and fear are simply the norm. Soon it becomes clear that she must get away, but how can she possibly go back to her old life knowing what she now knows? Besides, getting out may not be as simple as getting in. Finally available in English translation, Deviation is at once a personal testament, a work of the imagination, an investigation into the limits of memory, a warning to future generations, and a visceral scream at the horrors of the world." -- (Source of summary not specified)
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780374138455
- 0374138451
- OCLC:
- 1020306590
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