by Helga Schneider · SALAMANDRA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478887958
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«Déjame ir, madre» is the autobiography of Helga Schneider, published by Salamandra in paperback (160 pages, in Spanish).
Helga Schneider recounts her trip to Austria in 1998 to reunite with her mother, in her nineties and ill, who abandoned her as a child to enlist in the SS. The narrative focuses on twenty-four hours and confronts the author with a woman who still despises the victims of the Holocaust and with a filial bond impossible to break.
The book was originally published in Italian in 2001 as «Lasciami andare, madre» and reached Spanish in 2002 within Salamandra's Narrativa collection.
For readers of memoirs, historical testimonies, and accounts of World War II and the Holocaust.
Helga Schneider is an Italian writer of German origin. She was the recipient of the Rapallo Carige Prize 1996 for II rogo di Berlino.
