by Helga Schneider · Editorial Empúries · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475969527
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«Deixa'm mare» is the autobiographical account by Helga Schneider, published by Editorial Empúries in paperback (128 pages, in Catalan).
Helga Schneider recalls the reunion with her mother in Vienna, whom she has not seen for twenty-seven years. In 1943 her mother abandoned her children to enlist in the SS and work in the concentration camps; since then they have met only once. A testimony to the impact of war on family bonds.
Catalan translation by Anna Casassas Figueras. Original Italian title: «Lasciami andare, madre» (2001). The Catalan edition was published in 2002.
For readers of memoirs and stories about the Second World War and family relationships.
Helga Schneider is an Italian writer of German origin. She was the recipient of the Rapallo Carige Prize 1996 for II rogo di Berlino.
