Pearl is in charge of: the sad, the good, the past.
Stasha must care for: the funny, the future, the bad.
It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood.
As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele's Zoo, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others, and they find themselves changed, stripped of the personalities they once shared, their identities altered by the burdens of guilt and pain.
That winter, at a concert orchestrated by Mengele, Pearl disappears. Stasha grieves for her twin, but clings to the possibility that Pearl remains alive. When the camp is liberated by the Red Army, she and her companion Feliks--a boy bent on vengeance for his own lost twin--travel through Poland's devastation. Undeterred by injury, starvation, or the chaos around them, motivated by equal parts danger and hope, they encounter hostile villagers, Jewish resistance fighters, and fellow refugees, their quest enabled by the notion that Mengele may be captured and brought to justice within the ruins of the Warsaw Zoo. As the young survivors discover what has become of the world, they must try to imagine a future within it.
A superbly crafted story, told in a voice as exquisite as it is boundlessly original, MISCHLING defies every expectation, traversing one of the darkest moments in human history to show us the way toward ethereal beauty, moral reckoning, and soaring hope.
發表於2024-11-24
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3.5*聯想到日本731部隊,通過影像,愈發能體會小說所描繪的場景與情形。mischling是德語猶太混血的意思,寓意雙胞胎姐妹精神與現實的交閤。Pearl一隻眼睛失明,一隻耳朵失聰;Stasha骨摺成瘸——但波蘭解放後,我們彼此相依,你是我的眼。
評分“For as long as the light lived, the shadows endured”
評分她變成瞭一個“混血兒”:她感到自己分成瞭兩部分,一部分是絕望與仇恨,另一部分則是強烈的希望。
評分“For as long as the light lived, the shadows endured”
評分她變成瞭一個“混血兒”:她感到自己分成瞭兩部分,一部分是絕望與仇恨,另一部分則是強烈的希望。
Mischling 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載