pickThe German edition of The dead girls‘ class trip contains the title story(the memory of a class trip before WW1 and the subsequent lives of the girls during the Nazi regime),Mail to the Promised Land (the story of a Jewish father who flees pogroms in Poland,raises his son in France,moves to the Promised Land in old age& continues to receive letters from his son after his death) &The End (post WW2:a former camp inmate hunts down his KZ guard).👍
so-soI chose this book for #TitlesAndTunes #DramaQueen because of its title but it doesn‘t fit the prompt at all 🤷🏻♀️ The drama is real in Segher‘s short story collection, which mostly is about nazism and the war.
In the title story, for example, a woman imagines herself with her old schoolmates on a class trip. She intersperses her descriptions of the children in the years before the war with the lives they grew up to endure. A tough read.
so-soI finished it! Finally!
A real mix: some I found beyond tedious (long wallow in a family's awful poverty, I assume linked to her views on capitalism?).
The ones that stuck out for me were rooted in her experience of Nazi oppression, from the beautiful story about a son who writes to his father even after his death, to the title story which mixes a pre-war class trip with an account of how each girl's life changed with Hitler.
Finding this one hard work! Anyone else read this?
#NYRBClassics
What a title!
The Dead Girls' Class Trip: Selected Stories | 
