For the first time in Russian — an international bestseller by the Italian writer Rosella Postorino, winner of the most prestigious literary awards in Italy, such as Strega, Campiello and Un autore l’Europa — including for this book.
This novel is based on a real story — on an interview given in 2012 by 95-year-old Margot Wölk, the only survivor of the war of fifteen girls who, at Hitler’s headquarters Wolfsschanze (Wolf’s Lair), tried food intended for the Führer: he was pathologically he was afraid that he might be poisoned. For the Berlin-born Rosa Sauer (under this name Margot Wölk was bred in the novel), who ended up in East Prussia almost by accident, this service provided an opportunity for the first time in the war years to eat enough: but the price of every meal at any moment could be death. Like Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader, The Tasters is not so much about the horrors of war as about fear and choice. About whether it is possible to remain above the battle, serving the embodiment of world evil. What can and cannot be done in order to maintain hope for a future life, for the return of a husband from the front? ..
In 2018, at the anniversary Moscow book fair Non / Fiction, whose guest of honor was Italy, Rosella Postorino presented Tastingors at a joint presentation with Guzel Yakhina, winner of the Big Book and Yasnaya Polyana awards. “I am not embarrassed that“ Degustatorsh ”is compared with“ Reader, ”Postorino said,“ on the contrary, it’s a great honor for me … ”
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