Burnt child seeks the fire

"The girl had always known that something was wrong with her. "Cordelia, born out of wedlock, is a "three-quarter Jew", her mother a famous writer and fervent Catholic. At the crucial moment, she does not protect her daughter, but saves herself. At the age of 14, Cordelia Edvardson is deported to Auschwitz and her novel is a painful approach to the betrayal by her own mother, the groping search for an identity, the attempt to face the horror of the past unprotected, with an afterword by Daniel Kehlmann, read by Ulrich Noethen.