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The Riveter
For readers of The English Patient and All the Light We Cannot See comes a cross-cultural love story set against the dramatic backdrop of the Allied invasion of Europe in WWII.
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{"id":7329570521147,"title":"The Golden Daughter","handle":"the-golden-daughter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecret wartime letters, a volatile love triangle, an unmarked grave, a noble heritage—a revelatory mother-daughter memoir about discovery, love, and forgiveness.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSorting through her late mother’s possessions, Halina St. James found a secret stash of letters. They told how her mother, Maria, was abducted as a teenager in Ukraine by Nazis and sent to Germany as a slave.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter the war, Maria found herself pregnant in a displaced persons camp. She married the father, an older man from a noble Polish family. But her life changed when her husband introduced his friend, a young Polish freedom fighter. 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The Golden Daughter
Secret wartime letters, a volatile love triangle, an unmarked grave—a revelatory mother-daughter memoir about discovery, love, and forgiveness.
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Hanns and Rudolf
The untold story of the Jewish investigator who pursued and captured one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious war criminals.
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The Emperor of Lies
Winner of the prestigious August Prize, The Emperor of Lies is a powerfully moving story set in World War II Poland.
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An admirable achievement for such a slim volume.","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Elmar Krekeler","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Die Welt","OtherText_Review_1":"[Seethaler has] succeeded in crafting a book which has to be described as more poignant and harrowing than anything written in a very long time.","OtherText_Review_10":"Every word has a place. 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Full of wonder.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Literarische Welt","OtherText_Review_5":"Robert Seethaler's quietly mesmerizing novel - elemental in both tone and subject - shows what joy and nobility can be found in a life of hardship, patience and bereavement. It is at once heart-rending and heart-warming. A Whole Life, for all its gentleness, is a very powerful book.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Jim Crace","OtherText_Review_6":"It's refreshing to read a story marked by quiet, concentrated attention . . . a reaction to all around us that is prolix, narcissistic and mindlessly technology-worshipping. What is perhaps most remarkable about this remarkable novel is the way that it continually weaves past, present and future into a single fabric. 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A Whole Life
The 100,000-copy German bestseller.
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Fever at Dawn
A story of love based on the original ninety-six letters written by Miklós and Lili, two Holocaust survivors, and the author’s parents.
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It has been a long time since I’ve become tearful at the end of a novel but I must confess to doing so reading the final pages. 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Carry Me is full of this kind of searching, characters looking for a way to map their lives against war and love and change.” — Portland Press Herald\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Behrens is a beautiful, lyric writer. His understanding of the age and command of it, moment to moment, is impressive … everything is beautiful in the details, in the smallness of personal moments even as we know that no matter how calm, how peaceful the moment, it will not last.” — Jason Sheehan, NPR\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Carry Me’s perspective on war’s tragedies is beautifully composed, and heartbreakingly credible.” — Shelf Awareness\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Behrens is a master, at home in the broad sweep of history and the intimate detail of a character’s experience. This is a novel that could be, should be, read in a hundred years.” — Jury, The Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR PETER BEHRENS AND THE O’BRIENS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “[The O’Briens] is impressive in its scope and ambitious in its goals. Behrens’s writing is always tight, and some of his descriptions are flat-out jaw-dropping.” — Globe and Mail\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “A distinctly twentieth-century — and decidedly Canadian — family epic … pitch-perfect.” — National Post\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “The O’Briens is a major accomplishment” — New York Times\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Brimming with complex and nuanced characters, Behrens’s second novel lives up to the expectations set by his award-winning debut.” — Winnipeg Free Press\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Behrens’s characters are painfully real … the battle of the O’Brien family is as legendary and epic as any war.” — Telegraph-Journal\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “A truly wonderful writer who will no doubt be dominating the literary award nomination lists this fall.” — Montreal Gazette\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Behrens’ fine writing moves readers from one decade to the next, and we become more attached to each of the characters with each passing year … a sweeping Canadian saga that will carry readers along.” —Vancouver Sun\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR PETER BEHRENS AND THE LAW OF DREAMS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e Winner, Governor General’s Literary Award\u003cbr\/\u003eFinalist, Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize\u003cbr\/\u003eFinalist, Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Canada and the Caribbean): Best Book\u003cbr\/\u003eFinalist, CBA Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year\u003cbr\/\u003eFinalist, Amazon.ca\/Books in Canada First Novel Award\u003cbr\/\u003eLonglisted, IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\u003cbr\/\u003e An Amazon.ca Best Books of the Decade, 2000–2010 National Bestseller\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“[A]bsorbing, unsparing, and beautifully written […] a masterly novel.” — New York Times\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Behrens has fashioned a beautiful idiom for his book, studded with slippery archaisms and mournful, musical refrains […] the language and the things it describes seem to be spun out of a single material. And we move through it as willingly, or compulsively, as the protagonist, the wind of love and hate at our backs.” — Newsday\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“A work of richly empathetic imagination that reminds us once again of how powerful historical fiction can be in skilled hands. In fact, the story has a factual and emotional authenticity that calls to mind the similarly masterful debut Thomas Flanagan made with his now classic novel of Irish history, The Year of the French.” — LA Times\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“The Law of Dreams rings with a strange, hard poetry, a mingling of Behrens’s rich narrative voice and scraps of startling wisdom that seem to emanate directly from Fergus’s mind [… ] In the life of this determined young man, Behrens illuminates one of the nineteenth century’s greatest tragedies and the massive migration it launched. A novel that animates the past this vibrantly should make volumes of mere history blush. ‘Life burns hot,’ Fergus thinks, and so do these pages.” — Washington Post Book World\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Behrens’ use of crisp dialogue clearly conveys the fear, the longing and the unbridled hope of a young man teetering on the brink between starvation and salvation. But it is in his economical narrative that Behrens truly shines. ‘Life honed to the very edge. Sharpened on a whetstone. Chopping through the days. Working time like it was a sweep of hay.’” — Winnipeg Free Press\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“From a mountaintop in Ireland to the beckoning promise of America, there are scenes that will remain imprinted upon the reader’s mind. 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Carry Me
Set during the decades encompassing the First and Second World Wars, Carry Me is a devastating historical saga about love and family.
