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Those Who Save Us

Jenna Blum author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Canongate Books

Published:30th Mar '06

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'Impossible' Max breathes. 'This is impossible.' Anna bends to put her lips to his ear 'No, it's not' she whispers. 'I know where to hide you. I have the perfect place.'

For fifty years Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota.

Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph: a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmführer of Buchenwald. Driven by guilt about her supposed Trudy, now a professor of German history, begins investigating the past and finally unearths the dramatic and heartbreaking truth about her mother's life.

A compelling and often heart-wrenching work. * * The Observer * *
Jenna Blum's seductive, subtle style kept me hooked. * * Sunday Telegraph * *
Jenna Blum's seductive, subtle style kept me hooked. * * Independent on Sunday * *
An emotive and incisive endeavour. * * Guardian * *

ISBN: 9781841957012

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 30mm

Weight: 328g

496 pages

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