"La Sylphide" Vol.2: Family Saga

"La Sylphide" is a family saga in the best sense of the word. The story begins after the Second World War in Transylvania - now a region in Romania where Germans settled several centuries ago - and continues to the present day in Germany. The peculiar title of the novel symbolises the fate of a dancer who was allowed to dance the lead role in this ballet only once. The first volume deals with the history of a Transylvanian-Saxon family whose male members were deported to Russia after the wa...