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Le assaggiatrici
Le assaggiatrici | Rosella Postorino
2 posts | 5 read | 1 reading | 5 to read
La prima volta in cui Rosa Sauer entra nella stanza in cui dovr� consumare i suoi prossimi pasti � affamata. �Da anni avevamo fame e paura,� dice. Siamo nell�autunno del 1943, a Gross-Partsch, un villaggio molto vicino alla Tana del (…more)
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Le assaggiatrici | Rosella Postorino
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Mehso-so

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This novel is loosely based on Margot Wölk's experience as a food taster for Hitler during the WWII.. The story is interesting and fascinating, but I didn't like the writing style, at all..

This was my #doublespin for October @TheAromaofBooks

La_Cori If interested, there's a translated edition 4y
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Le assaggiatrici | Rosella Postorino
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"At 11 we were already hungry. It neither depended on the air of the countryside nor on the trip by van.That hole in the stomach depended on fear. We've been hungry and frightened for years". Right from the very first page author introduces us in the job of been one of Hitler's tasters. Eating, in the knowledge that every bite can be your last one. Poisoned by food that could be either life or death, food swallowed in bigger and bigger passages"