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A Crime in the Family
Und was hat das mit mir zu tun?
Sacha Batthyany (born 1973)
Translated by Anthea Bell
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A Crime in the Family
Da Capo Press · United States · 10 October 2017 · Hardcover · 224 pages
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A Crime in the Family
Quercus · United Kingdom · 2018
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A few weeks before the end of the war, Countess Margit Thyssen-Batthyány gives a lavish party at her castle in Rechnitz, Austria. Around midnight, guests leave the castle and shoot 180 Jews waiting at the station to be transported on. What exactly happened that night is still unclear. What has this to do with him, the writer Maxim Biller asks her great-nephew, a Swiss journalist. He starts looking for answers. His search takes him into old Hungary, postwar Austria and present-day Switzerland, to the Gulag camps in Siberia, onto a psychoanalyst's couch and into the living room of an Auschwitz survivor in Buenos Aires, and to an old family secret.
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About the book
- Form
- Nonfiction
- Length
- 254 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Historical, War (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, Russia, Argentina
- First published
- 2016 by Kiepenheuer & Witsch
- Author's age
- 43 when first published
- ISBN
9783462048315 (original)
9780306825828 (Da Capo Press, United States)
9781786480569 (Quercus, United Kingdom)