![]() This story was edited for radio by Monika Evstatieva and Ed McNulty, and adapted for the Web by Petra Mayer. Prison is the memory of the traumatic experience of the war, and of her absurd job eating Hitler's food. But actually she does not live, because she's always - like if she was in prison. She's old, she was not killed by poison, she was not killed by Russian people. AUDIRSCH Alduccio Robert 3104 1345 Posterino BERRIES JIGS Rhyrjterw KACIE. I always choose characters that allow me to represent the ambivalence of human behaviors. RATHER Apapapa LEONORA GUTZMAN ROSELLA ZLATEN 038 Borgo Ottocentesco 4-6. This contradiction is typical of human beings in every era. This contradiction - the fact that she is victim and guilty at the same time - is very human. I like her, because she's very human, I think. Postorino says Rosa was based on a real German woman. And so the fact that she tells the story from this period allows me to represent Rosa's conscience, and probably now she knows that she was at the bad part of the story. At the Wolf's Table was an international bestseller for author Rosella Postorino it's now been translated into English by Leah Janeczko. In my novel, the story is told by an old Rosa, she's telling this story from the future, and she knows everything about the Reich. "And what was interesting to me was that she was not a Nazi, but she risked her life, every day, three times a day, to save Hitler's life." Postorino wrote to Wölk, asking to meet - but the elderly woman died shortly after telling her story.Ĭode Switch What Happens When Two Enemies Fall In Love? Postorino says Rosa was based on a real German woman, Margot Wölk, who revealed late in her life that she'd been one of Hitler's tasters. At the Wolf's Table was an international bestseller for author Rosella Postorino it's now been translated into English by Leah Janeczko. Rosa and nine other conscripted women are food tasters for the Fuhrer, at Adolph Hitler's forest headquarters, called the Wolf's Lair. But she struggles to keep her meal in her stomach she has to stay at the table, seated and squirming, for an hour. At this point a young Italian novelist and journalist called Rosella Postorino came on the scene and vowed to record the story of these innocent dupes who served Hitler without ever seeing him. Opulent cuisine, really, for 1943 Germany - and Rosa Sauer is hungry. Roasted peppers, rice and peas, apple strudel for dessert. The novel At the Wolf's Table begins with what sounds like a fine meal: String beans, doused with melted butter. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Like every relationship, capable of changing our life.Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title At the Wolf's Table Author Rosella Postorino Strong, spoiled, ambiguous, indispensable. ![]() “This is the story of how I turned love into ashes and then ashes into love again. How can he save himself, if he’s turned into his own adversary?Ī delicate and savage story, like all love stories. Gradually, Milo sees Nadia light up again and is happy, but jealous, too. In those letters, increasingly dense and intense, both of them reveal themselves as never before. ![]() Books by this author This bio was last updated on. At the Wolf's Table is her first novel to be translated into English. She speaks fluent English, Italian, French, and German. ![]() Unexpectedly, she answers, giving rise to a secret correspondence. Rosella Postorino is an internationally bestselling author and an editor. This is why he writes to her one day, pretending to be someone else. He’d like her to still be in love, curious, alive, simply because she deserves it. He goes on loving his wife helplessly and can’t bear not to recognize in her eyes the girl that he’d once known. How many people surrender to the idea that marriage can’t help but turn out like this? Milo no. As sometimes happens in couples, she stays with him out of inertia, dependence, or fear. This is the opening line of this novel, in which Milo, married to Nadia for fifteen years, notices that she no longer wants him: she doesn’t look at him, she doesn’t listen to him, she doesn’t share anything about herself with him. “I started writing to my wife when she’d stopped loving me completely.” The novel At the Wolf's Table begins with what sounds like a fine meal: String beans, doused with melted butter. Daily life – the life that perhaps escapes us in its minute details … Bussola transforms it into thoroughly absorbing stories.
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