Imprint:
London : Simon & Schuster, 2020.
Collation:
303 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Spanish.
This translation originally published: United States: Atria Books, 2019.
Summary:
New York City, 2015: Elise Duval, 80 years old, receives a phone call from a woman recently arrived from Cuba bearing messages from a time and country that she's long forgotten. A French Catholic who arrived in New York after World War II, Elise and her world are forever changed when the woman arrives with letters written to Elise from her mother in German during the war, unravelling more than seven decades of secrets. Berlin, 1939: Bookstore owner and recent widow Amanda Sternberg is fleeing Nazi Germany with her two young daughters, heading towards unoccupied France. She arrives in Haute-Vienne with only one of her girls. Their freedom is short-lived and soon they are taken to a labour camp.
ISBN:
9781471184253 (pbk)
Dewey Class:
863.7
FICTION
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