![]() ![]() ![]() Putting a pin in that, I told her that people were still anti-Semitic, that lots of people still believed in things like a secret Jewish cabal ruling the world. She said, “but no one wants to kill the Jews anymore.” To her, Nazis existed only in history. I told her that when I went to Berlin, I encountered a dissonance between feeling like Berlin should be my heritage-I’m German Jewish, specifically-and knowing that Berlin had massacred their Jews. Two weeks before I left Sweden, at a music festival in a public park, I tried to explain to a Swedish girl why it was difficult being a Jew, and especially a Jew in Europe. Even in Europe, in a relatively left-wing city, I couldn’t escape it: the knowledge that there were a lot of people out there who wanted me dead. ![]() They kept shouting about Trump, and Swedish nationalism, and-of course-how Jews were the root of all evil. There were three hundred of them crowding the streets of Gamla Stan, Stockholm’s Old Town. Two weeks after I moved to Sweden, I walked out of my socialist reading group and into a neo-Nazi rally. Why I Wrote THE FEVER KING by Victoria Lee I hope to expand on it with some blog posts (and guest posts on other blogs) in the near future, so…stay tuned, I guess? Although it’s relatively short by requirement, it was very personal to write. I hope it explains some of the inspiration behind the book. This is the letter that I sent out with the galleys of The Fever King to bloggers and reviewers in advance of publication date. ![]()
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