The hormone factory
Subtitle: a novel
By: Saskia Goldschmidt ; translated from the Dutch by Hester Velmans
Contributors: Velmans, Hester, translator
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781590516492; 9781590516508
Subjects: Jewish businesspeople; Antisemitism; Female Contraceptive Agents; Jews; Fiction
Work titles: Hormoonfabriek
Description: Scientific progress and human decency butt heads in this debut novel, which was inspired by the real-life founder of Organon, the first pharmaceutical company to make and market birth control pills and testosterone replacement therapy. A Dutch meat company executive, Mordechai de Paauw built a pharmaceutical empire amid the chaos of Hitler's rise to power, in the process betraying his partner, his twin brother, his wife, and the young women who worked in his factory, whom he exploited sexually.
Notes: "Originally published in Dutch as De hormoonfabriek by Uitgeverij Cossee in 2012"--Title page verso.

Translated from the Dutch.