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<p><b>A devoted fascist changes her mind and her life after witnessing the horrors of the Holocaust<br></b><br>First published in Italy in 1979, Luce D’Eramo’s <i>Deviation</i> is a seminal work in Holocaust literature. It is a book that not only confronts evil head-on but expands that confrontation into a complex and intricately structured work of fiction, which has claims to standing among the greatest Italian novels of the twentieth century.<br><br>Lucia is a young Italian girl from a bourgeois fascist family. In the early 1940s, when she first hears about the atrocities being perpetrated in the Nazi concentration camps, she is doubtful and confused, unable to reconcile such stories with the ideology in which she’s been raised. Wanting to disprove these “slanders” on Hitler’s Reich, she decides to see for herself, running away from home and heading for Germany, where she intends to volunteer as camp labor. The journey is a harrowing, surreal descent into hell, which finds Lucia confronting the stark and brutal realities of life under Nazi rule, a life in which continual violence and fear are simply the norm. Soon it becomes clear that she must get away, but how can she possibly

Who reads Deviation: A Novel?

Author

Luce D'Eramo, Anne Milano Appel

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374717063

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

3.8 / 5 (11 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14