When a book by an Italian author, not yet well known beyond its borders, ends up jumping to the rest of the world with the virulence of what this novel does, it is really because it brings something new. And yes, that is the case of Rosella Postorino and her work «La catadora».
Everyone knows the variety of attempts to kill Hitler that occurred during his macabre leadership. There are those who assure that there were more than 40 attacks against him, transcending only those who were closest to achieving it ...
So it is not surprising that the Führer scrupulously bothered to check the goodness of the food he ate. And this novel talks about those who were in charge of attesting to the good state of their food since this sinister routine was established in 1942 that led 15 women to the inalienable Russian roulette of eating to survive with the risk of being able to perish on their own. ingestion of any poison.
The case of Margot Wölk, who passed away in 2014, was the starting point for novelizing this unique novel about the women in charge of tasting Hitler's food.
Afterwards, the poor girls only had to wait a reasonable time to consider an optimal digestion or a fatal contamination that would save the great leader ...
The novel introduces us to the strange world of those women who lived between starvation and desperate tasting, with the menacing shadow of the SS over them.
The protagonist of the story is called Rosa Sauer and her contradictory reflection invites us to move between the need to live despite everything, to let passion overcome fear, crossing the borders of what is forbidden and with her old notions about guilt , about the necessary oblivion and betrayal, floating on a world necessarily built to survive until the next tasting ...
Undoubtedly a novel that invites you to enjoy reading it, with the bitter taste of a menu that may turn out to be missing, in some hard days in which sitting at a table surrounded by food is presented as an invitation to the most ominous of restaurants .
You can now buy the novel La Catadora, the surprising novel by Rosella Postorino, here: