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What was Anna-Marta and Dolly’s last name? Always like googling the characters to see what the look like. Breathtaking book! I was in tears with what happened to Anna and for being 90% factual could not believe the twists and turns in this most exciting book. Could not put it down and didn’t want it to end. Well written and the characters were very interesting and well developed. Can’t wait for the movie.

Mary F The author gave the "Anna-Marta" character no last name because he wanted readers to conclude that she was Jewish**, but of course he botched this bec…moreThe author gave the "Anna-Marta" character no last name because he wanted readers to conclude that she was Jewish**, but of course he botched this because under the circumstances it'd be ludicrous not to give a last name. Even for sake of fiction, any person other than this protagonist - well, as this protagonist was written - would've acquired her last name from Leyers if not "Dolly Stottlemeyer" character, no?

Only a few people take issue with this aspect of the author's silly judgment calls (and tend to miss other aspects of a forest in flames for sake of rather peculiar Charlie Brown xmas trees).

** This is why I presume he picked Trieste as home town, by the way. What's more weird is that the author chose to miscast Leyers but also chose to turn him into a "conflicted" villain vs. the 1985 (recorded) version of Lella's tales in which the unnamed general (later to be declared "Kaufmann". This was as of early 2006 thru August 2009 and beyond to the author, but supposedly first to Dehlendorf in ~1998.

1998 turns out to be false timing, since Dehlendorf's obituary refers to suspiciously "serendipitous" meeting of Lella after Dehlendorf moved to Italy for a year at some point in 2000. I assessed it as suspect because it'd be no coinkydink that a man who owned ski areas near Lake Tahoe and began what would become a park at Arcata hadn't known of or run into Lella in some way before 2000.

Turns out that Dehlendorf's connextion to Arcata and Humboldt University being located there - home of The Altruistic Personality and Prosocial Behavior Institute - is also no coincidence. This is assessed as how Lella was asked for an interview by TAPPBI in 1985.(less)

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