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Fine, unmarked dust jacket, tight, unread pages. Natscha Wodin’s mother was from Mariupol, a city in Ukraine, and the book delves into her past, tracing her experiences in Soviet Ukraine and her fate as a displaced person in postwar Germany. It is an attempt by Wodin to reconstruct her mother's life, understanding the traumas she faced and the circumstances that led to her suicide in 1956, when Wodin was just a child. It also describes the original beauty of Mariupol in a journal found during the research. "Sie kam aus Mariupol" is both a personal and historical investigation, blending memoir, fiction, and investigative journalism. It sheds light on the forgotten stories of forced laborers, their families, and the impact of war and displacement across generations. This book won the Deutschen Literatur Preis 🏆 A magnificent book 📖

Lily Koppel, a journalist for The New York Times, found the diary in a discarded steamer trunk during the cleanup of an old Manhattan apartment building. The diary belonged to Florence Wolfson, who chronicled her life from 1929 to 1934, during her late teens and early twenties. Florence, a cultured and intelligent young woman, wrote about her experiences with love, art, literature, and self-discovery in 1930s New York. A rare book 📖