Victor

Gertie — a first-year student of the law faculty, the youngest in the Rosenbaum family.

Fifty years ago, in 1938, her grandmother and grandfather fled from Nazi Austria. Viennese music, cuisine, memories of the «old life» — all of this is still part of the family tradition, which is lovingly preserved by the older generation and which Gertie loves so much. But everything related to the fate of relatives who remained in Nazi-occupied Austria is surrounded by a wall of silence and awkwardness. One day, Gertie rises up against the family fear and shame, wanting to understand the past that still looms over the Rosenbaums like a storm cloud. And to uncover the secret hidden behind the name of her cousin Victor…

«Victor» — the debut novel of Dutch writer Judith Fanto, woven from two parallel storylines, past and present, between which the heroine must find a connection in the name of the future, in the name of «the continuity of life», as one of her ancestors says.