Ruth Maier Livres

Shows an understanding of the political forces shaping central Europe as well as extraordinary prescience. This book explores universal themes of isolation, identity, friendship, love, sexuality, desire, morality, justice and sacrifice.

Ruth Maier was born into a middle-class Jewish family in interwar Vienna. Following the Anschluss of Austria in March 1938, the world of the substantial Viennese Jewish community crumbled. In early 1939, her sister having left for England, Ruth emigrated