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Herod's Children

by Ilse Aichinger

Novella about the slaughter of innocents as reimagined through contemporary eyes

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Ilse Aichinger

Austrian author known for her hauntingly compressed, parabolical prose. Her novel The Greater Hope (Die größere Hoffnung) about Jewish children in Nazi Vienna, and her stories are essential works of postwar German-language literature.

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