Caroline de Mulder Boeken

Een jonge vrouw berooft met een gewelddadige jeugdbende sugerdaddy's om aan de armoede te kunnen ontsnappen. Maar kan ze de gevolgen van haar gedrag wel aan?

Heim Hochland, Bavaria, 1944. In the first Nazi maternity ward, rumors of war barely reach; everything is done to offer newborns of the SS order and their “pure blood” mothers a harmonious environment. Young Renée, a French woman abandoned by her family after falling in love with a German soldier, finds refuge there while awaiting an unwanted birth. Helga, a model nurse responsible for looking after pregnant women and infants, sees residents with sometimes tragic fates pass by and children evicted when they do not meet the required criteria: faced with this cruelty, her certainties sometimes waver. As the Allies draw closer, the well-regulated organization of the Lebensborn homes goes haywire, and the shelter becomes a trap. What will become of them when American soldiers get to them? And what choice will they have left? Reconstructing this disturbing gynoecium in its historical reality, this novel offers an immersion in one of the Lebensborn patronized by Himmler, aiming to develop the Aryan race and produce future warlords. A gripping dive into Nazi Germany seen from a women's point of view.

Une jeune femme se cherche et se perd dans la pratique du tango et des divers corps à corps que celle-ci favorise. Un roman singulier à la langue tantôt souple, tantôt heurtée, pour dire l'addiction que suscite une danse violemment sensuelle, qui se nourrit des corps autant que des âmes.