Meike Ziervogel Pořadí knih (chronologicky)

Der hochgelobte Roman über Magda Goebbels nun erstmals in deutscher Sprache: Meike Ziervogel ist ein eindrucksvolles Porträt der Frau von Hitlers Propagandaminister Joseph Goebbels gelungen. In nüchterner Sprache wird der Lebensweg eines ungeliebten Kindes zu einer ehrgeizigen Frau und deren Stilisierung zur Vorzeigemutter des Dritten Reiches beschrieben. Gleichzeitig erzählt Magda die Geschichte dreier weiblicher Generationen – neben Magda Goebbels kommt auch ihre Mutter zu Wort, sowie ihre älteste Tochter, die in ihren letzten Lebenstagen eine schreckliche Vorahnung ereilt.

Michele is a successful business woman with a troubled private life. She has a high-powered job, a family, a husband, yet she is defined by a term of possession: she is ‘Clara’s daughter’. Nameless. When Michele moves her mother into the basement, her husband slams the door and disappears into the night. Michele increasingly hides away upstairs, as Clara weaves her conspiracies beneath.Clara’s Daughter begins in terraced houses and city parks of North London but develops, through sharp-edged monologues and surreal visions, into a primeval stand-off between mother and daughter. Eventually, Clara – the controlling matriarch – finds a way to release her daughter. But can Michele release herself?Meike Ziervogel is a master of suspenseful storytelling. In Clara’s clandestine power games and Michele’s increasingly fraught dealings with both her mother and her own highly-strung sister, Hilary, there emerges a chilling, yet poignant family tableau. Devastating in its psychological insights, Clara’s Daughter reveals unnerving truths about relationship anxieties on many levels, which emerge not only from Ziervogel’s elegant, succinct descriptions, but build steadily from the tense, silent spaces between the unfolding of main events. A divinely-crafted, almost cinematic novella, Clara’s Daughter is at once startling, moving and intensely enduring.