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During the Second World War, orphans grow up on the estate of the beautiful Miss Monika, whose tender care keeps them alive; among them is her favourite, Vit, and the children come of age both sexually and politically. In the 1950s Monika and the girl Vit loves are sent as 'fascist debauchees' to a women's labour camp near the town of B., a place of extreme physical and mental abuse, where Vit, now the camp doctor, uses startling methods to heal their wounds and souls. By the early 1960s, the years of the thaw, the survivors must try to free themselves from a camp that has moved into their minds.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

376 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Politics, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Bulgaria, 1940s–1960s

First published

2019 by Colibri

Author's age

72 when first published

ISBN

9786190205142 (original)