The hollow bones

Resource Information

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Label

The hollow bones

Statement of responsibility

Leah Kaminsky

Creator

• Kaminsky, Leah, 1959-

Author

• Kaminsky, Leah, 1959-

Subject

• Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction
• Historical fiction
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction
• Indo-Europeans -- Fiction
• Schäfer, Ernst, 1910-1992 -- Fiction
• Biographical fiction
• Zoologists -- Fiction
• Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Fiction
• German Tibet Expedition, 1938-1939 -- Fiction

Genre

• Historical fiction
• Fiction
• Biographical fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Berlin, 1938. The eve of war. Ernst Schäfer, a young, ambitious zoologist, keen hunter and devoted husband of the beautiful Herta, has come to the attention of Heinrich Himmler, who invites him to lead a group of SS scientists to the frozen mountains of Tibet. Their secret mission: to search for the origins of the Aryan race. For Schäfer, the personal consequences of failure are unthinkable, yet little does he know this outlandish expedition will become a prelude to the unimaginable horror soon to overrun Europe. Using material discovered in field diaries, letters, films, photographs and secret documents, the novel tells the story behind Schäfer through the eyes of his ill-fated lover, Herta. Nazism proved a convenient short-cut to personal glory for Schäfer, who, accompanied by a group of SS scientists, trekked across inhospitable, treacherous terrain on a mission to conduct experiments to 'prove' Nordic heritage. In 1939, the team was flown out of India on Himmler's flying boats. Schäfer was an instant celebrity on his return to Berlin and, at just twenty-eight, he became one of the most celebrated men in Hitler's Reich. But his world was about to change, as science was enlisted for racial murder and Himmler sent Schäfer to Dachau to observe and film medical experiments. The Hollow Bones explores how quickly human relationships and an affinity with nature can be buried under cold ambition

Index

no index present

Literary form

novels

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult