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[David R. Gillham] ☆ City of Women: A Novel ☆ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. City of Women: A Novel READERS GUIDE INSIDE. But behind this façade is an entirely different Sigrid, a woman of passion who dreams of her former Jewish lover, now lost in the chaos of the war. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND ONE OF KIRKUS REVIEWS' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR It is 1943—the height of the Second World War. On the surface, Sigrid Schröder is the model German soldier’s wife: She goes to work every day, does as much with her rations as she can, and dutifull
| Title | : | City of Women: A Novel |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.80 (798 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0425252965 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 437 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-03 |
| Language | : | English |
READERS GUIDE INSIDE. But behind this façade is an entirely different Sigrid, a woman of passion who dreams of her former Jewish lover, now lost in the chaos of the war. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND ONE OF KIRKUS REVIEWS' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR It is 1943—the height of the Second World War. On the surface, Sigrid Schröder 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. With the men away at the front, Berlin has become a city of women.
"Extremely Multi-Dimensional Story" according to Ashley Mott. "City of Women" sounded interesting enough from the description on the product page, but the actually story told within the book's pages is a lot more. There is so much to Sigrid and the other women who populate these pages that this was a hard volume to put down. Honestly, minus a brief break halfway through, I read it all in one sitting because I couldn't NOT find out what was going to become of Sigrid and the other characters.As I write this. Julie Lovisa said Unexpected love and expected fear in WWII Germany.. This wasn't an easy book to read. That isn't to say that I didn't enjoy it, but that the characters are dark and joyless and the storyline bleak and desperate. Actually, I was expecting this as it is a novel that takes place in the Germany of WWII -- a place where even aryan Germans are living furtive lives in avoidance of the Gestapo. A place where one wrong word against the government or Fuhrer can get you shipped off to a concentration camp . Bart Mills said living authentically in nazi berlin. Sigrid Schroder endures the privations of wartime Berlin—husband fighting in Russia, mother-in-law all too present in her cramped apartment, Allied bombers forcing her to spend many nights sheltering underground, real cigarettes and coffee almost unobtainable, constant monitoring and hectoring by the authorities. And yet…there are movies, seen from the back row of the cinema. Under the beam of light from the projector, she meets a
Gillham is the New York Times-bestselling author of City of Women. David R. He spent more than a decade in the book business, and now lives with his family in western Massachusetts and is currently working on his second novel.
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. 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
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