Angabe der Person

For the first time, Jelinek puts the story of the Jewish part of her family into writing. Personal, official details are interspersed with accounts of the fate of relatives who had to flee Austria during the Nazi era and those who were deported and murdered. Autobiographical and universal, sarcastic and angry: Jelinek settles the score not only with herself but also with a society that is more interested in the perpetrators than in their victims. And, she traces the far-flung, winding trails of money, one of the greatest mysteries of modern economy.