A book by Italian author Erri De Luca that explores the lives of five women from Jesus' genealogy mentioned at the beginning of Matthew's Gospel: Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba, and Mary.
The book is an attempt to bring the scientific facts related to the archaeological research of the oldest civilizations closer to the reader and make them interesting. Written fluently, the book really reads like the most suspenseful novel.
The attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944 in today's Germany is not exactly celebrated, regardless of the thousands executed, nor is the heroic undertaking of the one-armed war veteran Claus von Stauffenberg particularly glorified.