| Wunderland Contributor(s): Epstein, Jennifer Cody (Author) |
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ISBN: 1432865331 ISBN-13: 9781432865337 Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print OUR PRICE: $30.39 Product Type: Library Binding - Other Formats Published: May 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - World War Ii - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: 813.6 |
| LCCN: 2019011619 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.7" W x 8.6" (1.75 lbs) |
| Themes: - Topical - Family - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - 1940's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An intimate portrait of a friendship severed by history, and a sweeping saga of wartime, motherhood, and legacy by an award-winning novelist East Village, 1989 Things had never been easy between Ava Fisher and her estranged mother Ilse. Too many questions hovered between them: Who was Ava's father? Where had Ilse been during the war? Why had she left her only child in a German orphanage during the war's final months? But now Ilse's ashes have arrived from Germany, and with them, a trove of unsent letters addressed to someone else unknown to Ava: Renate Bauer, a childhood friend. As her mother's letters unfurl a dark past, Ava spirals deep into the shocking history of a woman she never truly knew. Berlin, 1933 As the Nazi party tightens its grip on the city, Ilse and Renate find their friendship under siege--and Ilse's increasing involvement in the Hitler Youth movement leaves them on opposing sides of the gathering storm. Then the Nuremburg Laws force Renate to confront a long-buried past, and a catastrophic betrayal is set in motion... An unflinching exploration of Nazi Germany and its legacy, Wunderland is a at once a powerful portrait of an unspeakable crime history and a page-turning contemplation of womanhood, wartime, and just how far we might go in order to belong. |