At the wolf's table : a novel

Title:

Author:

Postorino, Rosella, author.

Added Author:

Janeczko, Leah,

Personal Author:

Postorino, Rosella, author.

ISBN:

9781250179142

9781250229151

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Physical Description:

275 pages ; 25 cm

Abstract:

Forced to risk her life every day as a taster at Hitler's secret headquarters, Rosa and a growing sisterhood of involuntary women conscripts navigate Nazi fanatics, an SS guard's unwanted attentions, and the escalating war.

Germany, 1943. Rosa Sauer's parents are gone, and her husband Gregor is fighting on the front lines of WWII. Conscripted by the SS to be one of Hitler's tasters, three times a day she and nine other women go to his secret headquarters, the Wolf's Lair, to eat his meals before he does. Three times a day. Forced to eat what might kill them, the tasters begin to divide into The Fanatics, loyal to Hitler, and those who insist they aren't Nazis, even as they risk their lives every day for Hitler's. And as the months pass, it becomes increasingly clear they are on the wrong side of history. -- adapted from jacket

Personal Subject:

Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945-Fiction.

Subject Term:

Food -- Sensory evaluation -- Fiction.

Poisoning -- Fiction.

Women -- Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Wolfsschanze (Poland) -- Fiction.

Genre:

Historical fiction.

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Summary

The international bestseller based on a haunting true story that raises provocative questions about complicity, guilt, and survival.

They called it the Wolfsschanze, the Wolf's 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 Sauer's 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 she'll find refuge there. But one morning, the SS come to tell her she has been conscripted to be one of Hitler's tasters: three times a day, she and nine other women go to his secret headquarters, the Wolf's 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 aren't Nazis, even as they risk their lives every day for Hitler's. 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.