Magda
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1907773401
ISBN-13
9781907773402
Publisher
Salt Publishing
Imprint
Salt Publishing
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 1st, 2013
Print length
128 Pages
Weight
150 grams
Dimensions
19.60 x 13.30 x 1.10 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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When the maidservant Auguste gives birth to her illegitimate daughter Magda, she feels burdened with a child she didn’t want. The girl grows up to become an ambitious woman, desperate for love and recognition. The Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, appears to answer her need and together they have six children.
Irish Times Books Of The Year 2013Observer Books Of The Year 2013Guardian Readers'' Books Of The Year 2013Short Listed For Guardian''s Not The Booker Prize 2013Unloved sons turn their aggression on the outside world. Unloved daughters destroy the people they love, and then themselves.In this daring portrayal of Magda Goebbels – wife of Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels – Meike Ziervogel unveils an historical tale of abusive mother and daughter relationships that reaches a terrifying conclusion in the last days of Nazi Germany.Magda is born at the beginning of the 20th century, the illegitimate child of a maidservant who feels burdened with a daughter she does not want. The girl grows up to become an ambitious woman, desperate for love and recognition. When Magda meets Joseph Goebbels, he appears to answer all her needs, and together they have six children. Towards the end of the Second World War, Magda has become physically and emotionally sick. As she takes her children into the Führer’s bunker, her eldest daughter Helga experiences an overwhelming sense of foreboding.
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