As I edited this remarkable work, I repeatedly found myself looking up some of the real people from whom Konar drew her inspiration: Eva Mozes Kor and Miriam Mozes Zeiger, Zvi Spiegel, Alex Dekel, and, most especially, Gisella Pearl. I stand in awe of them, overwhelmed to imagine that Mischling will, perhaps, draw renewed attention to the largely untold story of the twins of Auschwitz.
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Over the course of her career, Lee Boudreaux has published a diverse list of titles, including Ben Fountain’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Smith Henderson’s Fourth of July Creek, Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles, Ron Rash’s Serena, Jennifer Senior’s All Joy and No Fun, Curtis Sittenfeld’s Prep, and David Wroblewski’s The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, among many others.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
Part One Chapter One: World After World
Chapter Two: Zugangen, or Newcomers
Chapter Three: Little Deathless
Chapter Four: War Materials, Urgent
Chapter Five: The Red Clouds
Chapter Six: Messengers
Chapter Seven: Come Make Me Happy
Chapter Eight: She Said She Would Never Leave Me But
Chapter Nine: Million After Million
Part Two Chapter Ten: The Keeper of Time and Memory
Chapter Eleven: Bear and Jackal
Chapter Twelve: My Other Birth
Chapter Thirteen: The Straw Temple
Chapter Fourteen: The Russians Make a Movie
Chapter Fifteen: Our Marching Steps Will Thunder
Chapter Sixteen: Our Migration
Chapter Seventeen: The Ruins Watch Over Us
Chapter Eighteen: Partings
Chapter Nineteen: The Sacred Curtain
Chapter Twenty: The Flights
Chapter Twenty-One: Not the End
Chapter Twenty-Two: Never the End
Acknowledgments
Author’s Note
About the Author
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Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination, or, if real, are used fictitiously.
Copyright © 2016 by Affinity Konar
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ISBN 978-0-316-30808-3
LCCN 2015958011
E3_20160805_DANF
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