About the book: 2019 / For the first time in Russian - an international bestseller by the Italian writer Rosella Postorino, winner of the most prestigious literary awards in Italy, such as Strega, Campiello and Un autore l'Europa - including for this book. This novel is based on a real story - on an interview given in 2012 by 95-year-old Margot Wölk, the only survivor of the war out of fifteen girls who tried food at Hitler’s headquarters at Wolfsschanze (“Wolf’s Lair”), intended for the Fuhrer: he was pathologically afraid that he might be poisoned. For Berlin-born Rosa Sauer (Margot Wölk is named under this name in the novel), who found herself in East Prussia almost by accident, this service provided the opportunity for the first time during the war to eat well, but the price of every meal at any moment could be death. Like Bernhard Schlink's The Reader, The Tasters is less about the horrors of war and more about fear and choice. About whether it is possible to remain above the fray, serving the embodiment of world evil. What can and cannot be done in order to maintain hope for a future life, for the return of her husband from the front?.. In 2018, at the anniversary Moscow book fair Non/Fiction, of which Italy was the guest of honor, Rosella Postorino presented “The Tasters” at a joint presentations with Guzel Yakhina, winner of the Big Book and Yasnaya Polyana awards. “It doesn’t bother me that “Tasters” are compared to “Reader,” said Postorino, “on the contrary, it’s a great honor for me…»