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Erich Hackl | Als ob ein Engel | English Title: As If an Angel<br>176 Pages

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176 Pages
Published in Oct. 2007

ISBN 978-3-257-06595-4

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Erich Hackl
Als ob ein Engel

English Title: As If an Angel

Mendoza – a peaceful provincial town in Argentina at the foot of the Andes. The 8 April 1977 – the last day that Gisela Tenenbaum was seen alive. What happened to her after that date remains a mystery. How does a family continue to come to terms with the fact that their daughter – Gisi – disappeared so many years ago? Was she kidnapped, tortured, murdered? Gisi is gone and yet still present - a situation more painful than if she had died as a child. Erich Hackl has written the story of her family – Austrians of Jewish origin who fled to Argentina in 1939 –, of Gisi’s committed struggle against injustice, and her desperate, underground work for a cause that would ultimately be lost.

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»›As If An Angel‹ is Erich Hackl's most difficult, his most beautiful and perhaps his best book.«Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

»Hackl remains admirably consequent in writing contrary to the avalanche of autobiographical and private matters, which seems to bury everything else beneath it. And he does this with great national and international success.« ORF, Radio Austria 1

»Hackl has written a great transatlantic family story about persecution and resistance, which shows that it is the duty of every generation to define its political assignments against the background of past injustice.«Der Standard

»Erich Hackl fights against injustice with a writer’s tools. A man of the enlightenment, in the truest sense of the word.« Wiener Zeitung

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