The Women in the Castle: A Novel Paperback - 2018
by Shattuck, Jessica
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Details
- Title The Women in the Castle: A Novel
- Author Shattuck, Jessica
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William Morrow Paperbacks
- Date 2018-01-02
- Bookseller's Inventory # 006256367X-4-21400171
- ISBN 9780062563675 / 006256367X
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.1 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 2.79 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Cultural Region: Germany
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects History, Historical fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016023355
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
From the rear cover
Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three women whose lives and fates become intertwined
Amid the ashes of Nazi Germany's defeat, Marianne von Lingenfels returns to the once-grand castle of her husband's ancestors. The widow of a resister murdered in the failed July 20, 1944, plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Marianne plans to uphold the promise she made to her husband's brave conspirators: to find and protect their wives, her fellow resistance widows.
As Marianne assembles this makeshift family from the ruins of her husband's resistance movement, she quickly discovers that the black-and-white, highly principled world of her privileged past has become infinitely more complicated, and filled with dark secrets that threaten to tear them apart.
Written with devastating emotional power, Jessica Shattuck's evocative and utterly enthralling novel offers a fresh perspective on one of the most tumultuous periods in history. Combining piercing social insight and vivid historical atmosphere, The Women in the Castle is a dramatic yet nuanced portrait of war and its repercussions that explores what it means to survive, to love, and, ultimately, to forgive in the wake of unimaginable hardship.
