· Review: Affinity Konar’s Mischling is incredible and ghastly, beautiful and revolting, inspiring and brutal. I loved it. I tend to like historical novels set in World War II, but some stories rise above others and Mischling is one of www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 4 mins. 7 rows · · "Affinity Konar is an astonishing and fearless writer, whose great gift to us is this book. With Brand: Little, Brown and Company. · The result, in the case of “Mischling,” by Affinity Konar, is a failure of honesty, a failure (dare I say) of humility. Instead, we see the writer pointing toward herself: Look at me depict Author: Elizabeth Rosner.
"One of the most harrowing, powerful, and imaginative books of the year" (Anthony Doerr) about twin sisters fighting to survive the evils of World War www.doorway.ru Mengele's crimes form the backdrop of Affinity Konar's affecting new novel, "Mischling," which takes its title from the term the Nazis used to denote people of mixed heritage. Affinity Konar photographed by Gabriela Michanie. Upon first impression, Affinity Konar seems an unlikely candidate to tackle any piece of historical fiction, let alone a novel about the Holocaust. "I didn't come from a historical fiction viewpoint," she tells me, and in fact envied the confidence of friends who chose to write that way.
Affinity Konar, the author of “Mischling.”. Credit Gabriela Michanie. By Michiko Kakutani. Sept. 11, “During the period of the past century that I call Night,” Elie Wiesel wrote. "Affinity Konar is an astonishing and fearless writer, whose great gift to us is this book. With. "Affinity Konar is an astonishing and fearless writer, whose great gift to us is this book. With incantatory magic, she marches through the most nightmarish of landscapes, swinging her light." ―Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia "Affinity Konar's Mischling is a piercing novel written with chin-up virtuosity. The prose is dazzling, and the story of these twins is moving and searing, and as powerful as the best mythic stories of the masters of old."―.
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