by Margarete Buber-Neumann · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422633662
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Milena is a biography written by Margarete Buber-Neumann that tells the life of Milena Jesenská, a Czech journalist and writer known for her relationship with Franz Kafka. The book explores Milena's life, her work, her relationships, and her tragic fate during World War II. The work offers an intimate vision of a strong and complex woman in turbulent times.
Margarete Buber-Neumann was a German writer. As a senior Communist Party of Germany member and Gulag survivor, she was turned into a staunch anti-communist. She wrote the famous memoir Under Two Dictators, which begins with her arrest in Moscow during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, followed by her imprisonment as a political prisoner in both the Soviet Gulag and the Nazi concentration camp system, after she was handed over by the NKVD to the Gestapo during World War II.
