"In obscure characters, ambiguous sentences and ambiguous relationships, they began to self- to be a mystery. "
a mystery, I was at the beginning of what it's in the book is all about. The story is first off like a veil, is opaque and mysterious.
way I'm not even really became warm with Pola. I had the Read the feeling that she's not really there.
The story reveals itself only gradually, in particular by the inserted comments from Pola student.
Pola is a teacher in Vienna of the thirties and Alexander is the son of her boss Panigl, tuition. The young man falls in love with her. At the same applies to his father in Pola strange rites his secret cult, the one ariosophs.
Finally Pola is suspected of sorcery.
From the description of the court hearing the story a little clearer, but much remains mysterious. Gradually, however, lined up more and more pieces of the puzzle together. Make
When the Nazis to power, Pola is that is about to be released from prison, taken away. Where to, and what you done there, we do not know.
comes after the war, Pola returned to Vienna in search of the son whom she has born in prison and was taken from her shortly after birth. And they want answers. What exactly happened back then? What the family Panigl did to her? What was the role the pharmacist? Was Mandragora, also known as mandrake, a component of rituals? What happened to Alexander?
This very special book reads like a printed delirium and is something for everyone looking for a story beyond the mainstream.
Susanne Ayoub: Mandragora. ISBN 9783992000135 , hardcover, 432 pages, published on 01.09.2010 at Braumüller Literaturverlag
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