Bureau of Investigation of Fates
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This wisdom-filled and compassionate novel connects the lives of individuals to the collective memory of Europe.
Irene works for an agency that investigates the crimes of the German Nazis. Her urgent task is to return to their owners thousands and thousands of things found in the concentration camps. Behind each thing is the fate of a person, and Irene, absolutely not sparing herself, shattering personal life, trying to engage in reconstruction. What, for example, can tell a faded Pierrot doll, or a medallion with the Virgin Mary, or a stale handkerchief with embroidery? What mysteries surround them? Who are they, their owners, caught in the crucible of history, and who are their descendants?
This brilliantly written book shows with great emotional intensity how the past influences the present, how memory transforms history, making it sometimes a terrible and sometimes an inspiring chronicle of human destinies.
Irene works for an agency that investigates the crimes of the German Nazis. Her urgent task is to return to their owners thousands and thousands of things found in the concentration camps. Behind each thing is the fate of a person, and Irene, absolutely not sparing herself, shattering personal life, trying to engage in reconstruction. What, for example, can tell a faded Pierrot doll, or a medallion with the Virgin Mary, or a stale handkerchief with embroidery? What mysteries surround them? Who are they, their owners, caught in the crucible of history, and who are their descendants?
This brilliantly written book shows with great emotional intensity how the past influences the present, how memory transforms history, making it sometimes a terrible and sometimes an inspiring chronicle of human destinies.