Sisters Despite Everything
Three sisters – three lives
At the end of WWII Gerti loses everything. Her father has disappeared, her mother has died and her two sisters are put in a home. She is the only one who gets to stay with her grandparents. All she has left is three buttons torn off an old jacket from her days in the League of German Girls, which was supposed to bring the sisters luck. With Austria still in ruins, Gerti has to learn fast in order to survive on her own and assert her own worth despite all the prejudices of the time. Through it all, however, she never gives up on the search for her sisters.
In 2010, Gerti finally looks back on her life – on work, children, love and loss – and thinks, »It wasn’t a great life, but it was mine«.
A love story about female self-assertion in times in which there existed no word for it yet.
- A family saga about guilt and survival told in powerfully eloquent prose by the spellbinding storyteller Max Moor
- Inspired by true events
- For readers of Trude Teige and Ann Napolitano (‘Hello Beautiful’)
Max Moor, born in Zurich in 1958, is an actor and presenter. Up until 2024, he presented the renowned German TV culture show Kulturmagazin. He lives in Berlin with his wife.
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