![]() These women, who had no choice, took to Hitler's table 3 times a day and, by eating, risked their own lives to save the Third Reich. Wolk and other young woman were recruited from among the German civilian population to taste Hitler's food and to check whether or not it was poisoned. The plot of the novel is based on life of Margot Work, the last living of Hitler's food tasters. I was wrong.ĪT THE WOLF'S TABLE by Rosella Postorino details a little known aspect of Hitler's Germany in this well-written and engaging novel. As the months pass, it becomes increasingly clear that Rosa and everyone she knows are on the wrong side of history.Īs a retired teacher of both history and English, I thought I had read all there was to read at World War II and Hitler's Germany. What's more, one of Rosa's SS guards has become dangerously familiar, and the war is worsening outside. Forced to eat what might kill them, the tasters begin to divide into The Fanatics, those loyal to Hitler, and the women like Rosa who insist they aren't Nazis, even as they risk their lives every day for Hitler's.Īs secrets and resentments grow, this unlikely sisterhood reaches its own dramatic climax. But one morning, the SS come to tell her she has been conscripted to be one of Hitler's tasters: three times a day, she and nine other women go to his secret headquarters, the Wolf's Lair, to eat his meals before he does. ![]() Impoverished and alone, she makes the fateful decision to leave war-torn Berlin to live with her in-laws in the countryside, thinking she'll find refuge there. Germany, 1943: Twenty-six-year-old Rosa Sauer's parents are gone, and her husband Gregor is far away, fighting on the front lines of WWII. A legion of hunters was out looking for him, and to get him in their grips they would gladly slay me as well." As hapless as Little Red Riding Hood, I had ended up in his belly. "They called it the Wolfsschanze, the Wolf's Lair. Like every relationship, capable of changing our life.The internationally bestselling novel based on the untold true story of the women conscripted to be Hitler's food tasters. Strong, spoiled, ambiguous, indispensable. “This is the story of how I turned love into ashes and then ashes into love again. How can he save himself, if he’s turned into his own adversary?Ī delicate and savage story, like all love stories. Gradually, Milo sees Nadia light up again and is happy, but jealous, too. In those letters, increasingly dense and intense, both of them reveal themselves as never before. Unexpectedly, she answers, giving rise to a secret correspondence. This is why he writes to her one day, pretending to be someone else. He’d like her to still be in love, curious, alive, simply because she deserves it. ![]() He goes on loving his wife helplessly and can’t bear not to recognize in her eyes the girl that he’d once known. How many people surrender to the idea that marriage can’t help but turn out like this? Milo no. As sometimes happens in couples, she stays with him out of inertia, dependence, or fear. This is the opening line of this novel, in which Milo, married to Nadia for fifteen years, notices that she no longer wants him: she doesn’t look at him, she doesn’t listen to him, she doesn’t share anything about herself with him. ![]() “I started writing to my wife when she’d stopped loving me completely.” Daily life – the life that perhaps escapes us in its minute details … Bussola transforms it into thoroughly absorbing stories. ![]()
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