From the novel "At the Wolf's Table" by Rosella Postorino Germany, 1943: Twenty-six-y
ear-old Ro
sa Sauer’s
parents are
gone, and
her husband Gr
egor is far
away,
fighting o
n the front
lines of Wo
rld War
II. Impoveri
shed an
d alone
, she mak
es the f
ateful
decision to l
eave war-to
rn Berlin
to live with h
er in-laws i
n the co
untrysid
e, thinking s
he’ll find r
efuge there
. But one m
orning, the
SS come t
o tell her s
he has be
en conscri
pted to b
e one of Hitler
’s tasters: th
ree times a d
ay, she
and nine oth
er women
go to his
secret
headquarter
s, the Wolf’
s Lair, to
eat his m
eals before h
e does. Fo
rced to e
at what might
kill them,
the tasters b
egin to
divide in
to The Fan
atics, those
loyal to H
itler, a
nd the women
like Rosa
who in
sist they
aren’t N
azis, even
as they
risk their
lives e
very day for
Hitler’s.
As secr
ets and resent
ments grow, th
is unlik
ely sisterho
od reaches it
s own d
ramatic clim
ax, as ev
eryone be
gins to wonder
if they are on
the wron
g side of hi
story.　　F
rom the no
vel &a
mp;quot;
At the Wolf&a
mp;amp;#3
9;s Table&a
mp;amp;quot;
by Rosella
Postorino　　Ge
rmany, 1
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