Deviation
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Justine Eyre
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Written by:
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Luce D'Eramo
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Anne Milano Appel - translator
About this listen
First published in Italy in 1979, Luce D'Eramo's Deviation is a seminal work in Holocaust literature. It is a book that not only confronts evil head-on but expands that confrontation into a complex and intricately structured work of fiction, which has claims to standing among the greatest Italian novels of the 20th century.
Lucia is a young Italian girl from a bourgeois fascist family. In the early 1940s, when she first hears about the atrocities being perpetrated in the Nazi concentration camps, she is doubtful and confused, unable to reconcile such stories with the ideology in which she's been raised. Wanting to disprove these "slanders" on Hitler's Reich, she decides to see for herself, running away from home and heading for Germany, where she intends to volunteer as camp labor.
The journey is a harrowing, surreal descent into hell, which finds Lucia confronting the stark and brutal realities of life under Nazi rule, a life in which continual violence and fear are simply the norm. Soon it becomes clear that she must get away, but how can she possibly go back to her old life knowing what she now knows? Besides, getting out may not be as simple as getting in.
©2012 Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore S.r.l.; Copyright 2018 by Anne Milano Appel Translation; Copyright 2018 by Anne Milano Appel Translator's introduction and notes (P)2018 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books