Mischling Paperback by Affinity Konar

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage Canada (2017-06-06)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 432 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780345816429
• Item Weight: 322.06 grams
• Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.2 x 0.9 cm

"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 II.


     It's 1944 when twin sisters, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski, arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele's Zoo, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others, and they find themselves changed, their identities altered by the burdens of guilt and pain. That winter, at a concert orchestrated by Mengele, Pearl disappears. Stasha grieves for her twin, but clings to the possibility that Pearl remains alive. When the camp is liberated by the Red Army, she and her companion Feliks--a boy bent on vengeance for his own lost twin--travel through Poland's devastation. As the young survivors discover what has become of the world, they must try to imagine a future within it. A superbly crafted story, told in a voice as exquisite as it is boundlessly original, Mischling defies every expectation, traversing one of the darkest moments in human history to show us the way toward ethereal beauty, moral reckoning, and soaring hope.

About the Author

AFFINITY KONAR is the author of The Illustrated Version of Things. She received her MFA from Columbia University and lives in Los Angeles.