She is from Mariupol
About This Novel
"Dear God, please let me feel what she felt, just for a moment," her daughter said years later. One day when Natasha Warding was ten years old, her mother went out and never came back. Later she learned that her mother had drowned in the Regnitz River without leaving a single word; her father was an alcoholic and buried himself in Russian books all day long. --After that, the author realized that he knew nothing about her. The only thing he knew was that she was from Mariupol and was deported from Ukraine to Germany as a forced laborer in 1943. With very few clues, Natasha Warding pieced together the broken pieces bit by bit. She discovered that the family's past was a huge mystery, a historical allegory about the sufferings of Eastern Europe... The author used a charming way to completely restore a mother's personal history, family history, and the turbulent history of the twentieth century. Although this is a non-fiction work, it is more magical, dramatic and thrilling than fiction.
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Official(1)Scraped 4d ago
nice!
The author searches for the past story of his mother who died in Germany as a Ukrainian laborer many years ago. It's very exciting to peel off the cocoon!
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Community(0)
Official(1)Scraped 4d ago
nice!
The author searches for the past story of his mother who died in Germany as a Ukrainian laborer many years ago. It's very exciting to peel off the cocoon!
