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Haya Tadeschi sits alone in Gorizia, north-eastern Italy, surrounded by a basket of photographs and newspaper clippings. Now an old woman, she waits to be reunited after 62 years with her son, fathered by an S.S. officer and stolen from her by the German authorities during the war.
“A new old chapter” well captures the early feel of this book, a beguiling yet trenchant mélange of factual history and fictional family narrative.