Der Geschmack von schwarzer Erde

Inga Gaile

ISBN 10: 3968870255 / ISBN 13: 9783968870250

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Synopsis:

Poetic and profound. Contemporary literature from Latvia in German first translation.

Her fates are a reflection of the 20th century: Violette Dauphine is interned as a "political" in the Ravensbrück concentration camp and selected for a terrible work. The camp doctor Kārlis, a psychologist from Latvia who can hardly defend himself against the inhuman - and does not return to his homeland, is not innocent of it. The Latvians Lidija and Ilze are transported to Siberia, while others escape this fate. In Soviet Latvia, they meet again. All their lives are interconnected: through relationships, children, or by the circumstances in which they live.

Inga Gaile weaves the life stories of these people together across country borders and generations. "The Taste of Black Earth" shows the traumas that the Second World War left over generations, regardless of nation and social position.

Inga Gaile about her novel: "I have tried to write a novel about people who are able to preserve their humanity in situations and under circumstances where it has no place."

The Latvian bestselling author lets us immerse us deep into the darkest Latvian and German history in her second novel "The Taste of Black Earth" (original title "Skaistās"). A masterpiece of literature, brilliantly translated by Bettina Bergmann.

Barbara Samson, editor of the Latvian daily newspaper diena, writes in her review:

»The basic tone of the text is the boundary states of the soul, which may or may not depend on external conditions - when the tectonic plates of emotions shift, when the curtain of the temple is torn, when the paths open into the depths that were previously carefully obscured by the Potemkin facades of civilization, it does not matter what the spiritual landslides are. in the psyche caused - the madness of age, illness, natural processes or the endless imagination of fellow human beings when it comes to pain. [Inga Gaile] writes precisely about the fragile, undeniable relationship that combines the tangible and the invisible in human nature and which has always been so difficult to undergo analysis, healing, and understanding.«

Bibliographic Details

Title: Der Geschmack von schwarzer Erde
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New