Gili's family are celebrating grandmother Vera's 90th birthday but when estranged daughter Nina arrives old wounds are opened. The novel takes us from Israel to Yugoslavia and to the desolate island, Goli Otok, where Tito's political prisoners were held. Under torture Vera must choose between defending her husband's political integrity or abandoning her child. Based on the life of Eva Panić Nahir, and fully acknowledged, indeed she asked him to write it - truly unpudownable.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 102 Autumn 2021 ) |
