Gerta - Kateina Tukov
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Liza Seneca
Tags: General Fiction, Novel, Contemporary, Adults
The award-winning novel by Czech author Kateina Tukov - her first to be translated into English - about the fate of one woman and the pursuit of forgiveness in a divided postwar world., 1945. Allied forces liberate Nazi-occupied Brno, Moravia. For Gerta Schnirch, daughter of a Czech mother and a German father aligned with Hitler, its not deliverance; its a sentence. She has been branded an enemy of the state. Caught in the changing tides of a war that shattered her family - and her innocence - Gerta must obey the official order: she, along with all ethnic Germans, is to be expelled from Czechoslovakia. With nothing but the clothes on her back and an infant daughter, shes herded among thousands, driven from the only home shes ever known. But the injustice only makes Gerta stronger, more empowered, and more resolved to seek justice. Her journey is a relentless quest for a seemingly impossible forgiveness. And one day, she will return., Spanning decades and generations, Kateina Tukovs bre
