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She is from Mariupol
Literature她来自马里乌波尔
(germany) Natasha Warding
"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.
"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.
Man in Shadow
Literature暗影中的人
(germany) Natasha Warding
"People can tell where you come from at a glance." "The father is a single tree, living in isolation, and an open fist that may be clenched at any time and fall on his daughter." Following the success of "She's from Mariupol", Natasha Wardin embarked on a journey to trace her father, telling the story of her mother's suicide in 1956. The author longs for a normal life and desperately wants to get rid of her origin as a displaced person, integrate into German society, and escape from her Russian roots. However, her father imprisons her, forbids her to wear red shoes, beats her, and tries every means to keep her away from the German world. The father who frightened her all the time was born in the Tsarist Russia era and spanned almost the entire 20th century. His life has always been a mystery to her daughter: Why did her father refuse to learn German? He could only speak two words, "yes" and "no"? Why did he remain silent about his first forty years in Russia? Through all the silence, somewhere in the shadows, is a tumultuous and appalling history. In the process of trying to find the key to understanding, Natasha used her experience of being homeless and having nowhere to go to write about her father's silence, as well as the contradictions and struggles of the abnormal father-daughter relationship.
"People can tell where you come from at a glance." "The father is a single tree, living in isolation, and an open fist that may be clenched at any time and fall on his daughter." Following the success of "She's from Mariupol", Natasha Wardin embarked on a journey to trace her father, telling the story of her mother's suicide in 1956. The author longs for a normal life and desperately wants to get rid of her origin as a displaced person, integrate into German society, and escape from her Russian roots. However, her father imprisons her, forbids her to wear red shoes, beats her, and tries every means to keep her away from the German world. The father who frightened her all the time was born in the Tsarist Russia era and spanned almost the entire 20th century. His life has always been a mystery to her daughter: Why did her father refuse to learn German? He could only speak two words, "yes" and "no"? Why did he remain silent about his first forty years in Russia? Through all the silence, somewhere in the shadows, is a tumultuous and appalling history. In the process of trying to find the key to understanding, Natasha used her experience of being homeless and having nowhere to go to write about her father's silence, as well as the contradictions and struggles of the abnormal father-daughter relationship.