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Author: Mariastella Eisenberg
A family saga woven from guilty silences, subterranean grudges, granite-solid feelings.
Nowadays, in Jerusalem, a city sacred to Jews, Christians and Muslims, the threads of this riveting human story will be untangled, starting in 1912 in Romania and developing during the fifties in Italy, in the enchantment of the Gulf of Naples. Two world wars tear the old continent apart and millions of human beings, during and after the conflicts, have to reckon with all the sins of the Earth. "Death was 'a German master', but he had a zealous Romanian apprentice. Even today in Romania all this is hushed up and distorted, more than it is admitted." So writes Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller. Mariastella Eisenberg tells the story of the Rosenbergs, a Jewish family of German ethnicity, crossing the torments of the twentieth century, where the reasons of history give way to the rights of the heart and of daily life. And she does so in her own style, with "the immediacy of images, agile and never rhetorical prose".