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(0)Jessica Shattuck
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Three women, haunted by the past and the secrets they hold. Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined--an affecting, shocking, and ultimately redemptive novel from the author of the New York Times Notable Book, The Hazards of Good Breeding. Amid the ashes of Nazi Germany's defeat, Marianne...
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This debut novel tells the story of a WASPy, old-Boston family coming face to face with an America much larger than the one it was born in. Caroline Dunlap has written off the insular world of the Boston deb parties, golf club luaus, and WASP weddings that she grew up with. But when she reluctantly returns home after her college graduation, she finds that not everything is quite as predictable, or protected, as she had imagined. Her father, the eccentric,...
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Un retrato de la guerra y sus repercusiones. Una novela desgarradora sobre lo que significa perdonar para poder seguir viviendo.
Cuando la Segunda Guerra Mundial llega a su fin, entre las cenizas de la derrota nazi, Marianne von Lingenfels regresa al castillo bávaro de los antepasados de su esposo, una imponente fortaleza ahora en ruinas. Viuda de un resistente asesinado tras el fallido complot para matar a Hitler, Marianne decide mantener la promesa...
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Three women, haunted by the past and the secrets they hold Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined-an affecting, shocking, and ultimately redemptive novel from the author of the New York Times Notable Book The Hazards of Good Breeding. Amid the ashes of Nazi Germany's defeat, Marianne...