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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
Contributor(s): Anonymous (Author), Keating, Isabel (Read by), Boehm, Philip (Translator)
ISBN: 1427291381     ISBN-13: 9781427291387
Publisher: MacMillan Audio
OUR PRICE:   $41.39  
Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats
Published: May 2017
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe - Germany
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- History | Military - World War Ii
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.2" W x 5.9" (0.65 lbs)
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Germany
- Chronological Period - 1940's
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. "With bald honesty and brutal lyricism" (Elle), the anonymous author depicts her fellow Berliners in all their humanity, as well as their cravenness, corrupted first by hunger and then by the Russians. "Spare and unpredictable, minutely observed and utterly free of self-pity" (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland), A Woman in Berlin tells of the complex World War II relationship between civilians and an occupying army and the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject--the mass rape suffered by all, regardless of age or infirmity.

A Woman in Berlin stands as "one of the essential books for understanding war and life" (A. S. Byatt, author of Possession).

Contributor Bio(s): Keating, Isabel: - Isabel Keating won the Drama Desk Award and was nominated for the Tony Award for her Broadway turn in The Boy from Oz, for which she also won a Theatre World Award. She also starred in the long-running hit Hairspray, and made her Broadway début starring in Enchanted April. Off Broadway she has appeared at Primary Stages, the Atlantic Theatre Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre and Ars Nova, among others. Her films include The Nanny Diaries and The Life Before Her Eyes, and on television, she guest starred in 3 lbs. and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Isabel has recorded a number of Earphones award-winning audiobooks. Some of the titles she's read include Bill Floyd's The Killer's Wife, Nicholas Sparks's The Guardian, Jackie Collins's Lovers & Players, and Sebastien Japrisot's A Very Long Engagement.