Hansen's Children
Spahi¿, Ognjen![Hansen's Children](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/182/18231024/CHSBZCOP0318231024.jpg)
Appalling and tragic, Ognjen Spahic's exceptional short novel animates the misery of Ceasescu's Romania and its inglorious fall with a metaphor fully up to the task: leprosy. Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen was a Norwegian scientist who isolated the Mycobacterium leprae in 1873 and his 'children' are the tragic sufferers of this ghastly disease. In Spahic's novel, it's 1989 and a dozen of them are confined to the last leper house in Europe, an u...