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Synopsis
It is 1943 -- the height of the Second World War. With the men away at the front, Berlin has become a city of women.
On the surface, Sigrid Schroder is the model German soldier's wife: She goes to work every day, does as much with her rations as she can, and dutifully cares for her meddling mother-in-law, all the while ignoring the horrific immoralities of the regime.
But behind this facade is an entirely different Sigrid, a woman of passion who dreams of her former Jewish lover, now lost in the chaos of the war. But sigrid is not the only one with secrets---she soon finds herself caught between what is right and what is wrong, and what falls somewhere in the shadows between the two...
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, August 2012: While the world hardly lacks for novels about WWII, David R. Gillham’s City of Women is extraordinary for what it does not do. It does not detail the events or imagined conversations of Hitler’s Reich, and it has not a single scene of life in the death camps. Instead, it chronicles-–in detail so specific that it’s mesmerizing, but not so obviously researched as to be annoying-–life for “ordinary” Berliners at a time that was anything but. Through Heroine Sigrid Schroder, a German wife drawn into an affair with a Jew, Gillham shows us a world in which not all Germans are bad, not all Jews are victims, and loyalty is a fiction, the grimmest of fairy tales. -–Sara Nelson
About the Author
David R. Gillham is the New York Times-bestselling author of City of Women. He spent more than a decade in the book business. He lives with his family in western Massachusetts and is currently working on his second novel.
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- PublisherAmy Einhorn Books
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 039916152X
- ISBN 13 9780399161520
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages392
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