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Money from Hitler
Peníze od Hitlera
Radka Denemarková (born 1968)
Translated by Andrew Oakland
English editions
In EnglishMoney from Hitler
Women's Press · Canada · 2009 · Paperback · 252 pages
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Gita Lauschmannová grew up happily in the village of Puklice, until her family, unaware they were even Jewish, was taken to the camps. In 1945, aged sixteen, she survives and rushes home, but her neighbours have seized the family's house and land and have no wish to see the returning children. Sixty years later, now a spirited elderly woman, Gita goes back one summer. She is not after the stolen property, only some symbolic redress for her father, yet the village closes ranks against her. Told in six chapters, each another attempt to come home, the novel asks whether wrongs this old can still be named and punished, and how hard it is for a whole community to admit its guilt.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 242 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, War (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Czechia, 1945, 2000s
- First published
- 2006 by Host
- Author's age
- 38 when first published
- ISBN
9788072941858 (original)
9780889614772 (Women's Press, Canada)