Němci

For four decades parcels have reached the Mahler family in Prague from West Germany, sent by Klára Rissmannová to her son Konrad, and in 1987 the last one comes. Nobody in the family ever talked about grandmother Klára, and when Konrad dies suddenly, his daughter sets out to find her and to learn what happened. The story she uncovers is that of a German schoolteacher sent from the Reich to the Sudetenland in wartime, who handed her newborn son to foster parents in Prague and left for Germany. Moving between the wartime borderland and post-war Prague, through a family marked by both world wars, the novel explores loss and uprooting.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

416 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, War, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Czechia, Germany, 1910s–1980s

First published

2012 by Host

Author's age

33 when first published

ISBN

9788072946822 (original)