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Les Effinger: ne saga berlinoise II (1914-1948)

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Les Effinger comptent désormais parmi les plus importantes familles d’industriels de Berlin. La Grande Guerre passée, ils traversent les années folles avec optimisme, dans une capitale allemande plus cosmopolite que jamais. Mais leur monde est secoué par les crises du nouveau siècle : parents et enfants s’affrontent autour de nouvelles idées, socialistes et féministes, l’antisémitisme monte, et les divisions qui déchirent la nation vont précipiter l’Europe, ainsi que la famille Effinger, vers l’horreur.

Les Effinger raconte, en deux volumes, le destin d’une famille juive allemande emportée dans le tumulte de l’Histoire. Avec une formidable vivacité, Gabriele Tergit fait revivre une époque oubliée, de Bismarck à Hitler, à travers une galerie de personnages inoubliables.

« On dévore cette prodigieuse saga qui nous fait éprouver l’histoire. » Le Point

513 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 8, 2025

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Gabriele Tergit

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Gabriele Tergit had already pioneered as a female court reporter for major Berlin newspapers when she became famous overnight for her socially critical novel about the late Weimar Republic, Käsebier erobert den Kurfürstendamm (Käsebier Conquers the Kurfürstendamm, 1931). Her literary career in Germany was cut short by Hitler, however, and, like Irmgard Keun, she was largely forgotten after the war. But in spite of her lack of success in the early Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), the exiled author never stopped writing and also worked tirelessly for the last 25 years of her life as the honorary secretary of the London PEN-Center of expatriate German-speaking authors. With the growing interest in women writers in the late 1970’s Tergit’s writings have attracted renewed attention and many have been republished.

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