Mischling : a novel

Resource Information

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Label

Mischling : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Affinity Konar

Creator

• Konar, Affinity

Author

• Konar, Affinity

Subject

• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction
• Nazis -- Fiction
• Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Buildings -- Fiction
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
• Twin sisters -- Fiction
• Concentration camps -- Poland -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele's Zoo, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others, and they find themselves changed, stripped of the personalities they once shared, their identities altered by the burdens of guilt and pain. That winter, at a concert orchestrated by Mengele, Pearl disappears. Stasha grieves for her twin, but clings to the possibility that Pearl remains alive. When the camp is liberated by the Red Army, she and her companion Feliks - a boy bent on vengeance for his own lost twin - travel through Poland's devastation

Cataloging source

WWBK

Dewey number

813.6

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult