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Rosella Postorino’s novel AttheWolf’s

Table (Simon & Schuster, rrp $35) is inspired by a true story. In 1943, Rosa Sauer’s parents are gone and her husband Gregor is far away, fighting on the front lines. Impoverish­ed and alone in war-torn Berlin, she makes the fateful decision to seek refuge with her in-laws in the countrysid­e. But one morning, the SS arrives to inform her she has been conscripte­d as one of Hitler’srs food tasters. Twice a day, Rosa and nine other women must t go to his secret headquarte­rs rs to try his meals before he does. After each meal, they must wait an hour to see if they will die. As the war escalates, it becomes increasing­ly clear that Rosa and everyone she knows are on the wrong side of history.

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