At the Wolf's Table: A Novel

ISBN: 1250179165

Author: Postorino, Rosella

Condition: Used

The international bestseller based on a haunting true story that raises provocative questions about complicity, guilt, and survival.They called it the Wolfsschanze, the Wolfs Lair. Wolf was his nickname. As hapless as Little Red Riding Hood, I had ended up in his belly. A legion of hunters was out looking for him, and to get him in their grips they would gladly slay me as well.Germany, 1943: Twenty-six-year-old Rosa Sauers parents are gone, and her husband Gregor is far away, fighting on the front lines of World War II. Impoverished and alone, she makes the fateful decision to leave war-torn Berlin to live with her in-laws in the countryside, thinking shell find refuge there. But one morning, the SS come to tell her she has been conscripted to be one of Hitlers tasters: three times a day, she and nine other women go to his secret headquarters, the Wolfs Lair, to eat his meals before he does.Forced to eat what might kill them, the tasters begin to divide into The Fanatics, those loyal to Hitler, and the women like Rosa who insist they arent Nazis, even as they risk their lives every day for Hitlers. As secrets and resentments grow, this unlikely sisterhood reaches its own dramatic climax, as everyone begins to wonder if they are on the wrong side of history.