Money from Hitler

How is it possible that I'm still alive? How is it possible to stay normal after all this? In the crazy human world? Which does not and will not change. It doesn't matter whether your father is sitting here or you or your son or your grandson. Man remains the same. There is no hope. Not in you, not in me, not in our children. If I peel off the skin of all of you as you stand and sit here, I find the same thing. We're no different. Gita Lauschmann, a girl barely sixteen years old, survived the concentration camp and rushes to her native Puklice to embrace her loved ones and sleep in her bed again after years of horror and hardship. She came back to find she had nowhere to go. The war is over, the rampage is not. Gita Lauschmann, an energetic woman at the end of her life, harshly marked by fate. She hasn't let her life get completely ugly. Accumulated memories come alive. Gita summarizes the blindfold. Boldly, ruthlessly. Time, however, will eat away at everyone and everything in its own way. Can justice be achieved despite this? Is it possible to seek punishment for barbaric acts? Can wrongs be righted? Yes and no. However, everyone has to eat their own plate. The main thing is to stay in bed, don't collapse, don't scream. The author's second prose book, that came out first published in 2006 and became an international bestseller, is again a grotesquely dark tale, panopticon, in which glimmers of stories shimmer, that we ourselves live. A book that will literally shake the reader. Nothing for the faint-hearted. Andreas Kossert The great, dark, topical theme of the depth of ancient drama. The jury of the Magnesia Litera Prize A novel about the painful chapters of post-war Central Europe is a shocking story about collective guilt and individual responsibility and the fragile boundary between good and evil. Jury of the Kulturhuset Prize Stadsteaterns internationella lieraturpris Stockholm