Petrowskaja
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Taking the reader from berlin to warsaw, to moscow, to kiev, from google searches, strange encounters and coincidences to archives, anecdotes and jokes, katja petrowskaja undertakes a journey in search of her own place in past and present, memory and history, languages and countriesthe result is maybe esther - a singular, haunting, unforgettable work of literaturesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop evesham the moving story of one family's entanglement with twentieth-century historyan international bestsellerkatja petrowskaja's family story is inextricably entangled with the history of twentieth-century europethere is her ukrainian grandfather, who disappeared during world war ii and reappeared forty years laterthere is her great-uncle, who shot a german diplomat in moscow in and was sentenced to deathand there is her great-grandmother - whose name may or may not have been esther - who was too old and frail to leave kiev when the jews there were rounded up, and was killed by a nazi outside her house
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