by Erich Hackl · Diogenes Verlag AG,Switzerland · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783257224283
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«Abschied von Sidonie» is the novel by Erich Hackl, published by Diogenes Verlag in paperback (127 pages, in German).
The work tells the story of Sidonie, a Romani girl abandoned in 1933 outside a hospital in Steyr and taken in by an Austrian family. With the rise of Nazism, the family must face painful decisions to try to protect the girl from racial persecution, in a tale about identity, prejudice and survival during the Holocaust.
Number 22428 in the detebe collection from Diogenes. The edition received the Evangelischer Buchpreis in the novel category in 1991.
For readers of historical fiction and Austrian literature, with an interest in 1930s Europe and Nazism.
Erich Hackl is an Austrian novelist and short story writer. His works have been translated into 25 languages though he is significantly better known in the German-speaking world. Many of his works, notably Sara und Simón, bear resemblance to Latin-American testimonial literature, and as such have been the focus of scholarly research by Latin Americanists.
