What a book! Dasa Drndic from Croatia researched history of the Third Reich the Nazi era as it affected people in and near Trieste Italy. Some of it is fiction some is real. It is a painful book to read. Some times I would ask myself Why are you reading this? then I turned back to the book and continued.The woman from city near Trieste who lived through that had relationship with a Nazi and a child who disappeared from her and her father tried to hide their jewishness by going to Church and being sort of christian. She was never in a camp. I had no feeling for her no connection to her and I found her a flat character. Where this book excels is in the research of the Nazis and their history of evil.
I dont think she writes fiction well - and is more of a historian researcher reteller of truths.