An Act of Peace - Tapa blanda
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The story of Klaus-Pierre Dessin, the illegitimate son of a young French woman and a high-ranking German soldier, who fall in love in Paris during the Nazi occupation in WWII. His father is killed in the German retreat and his mother is faced with bringing up her young son on her own.
Told in the first person, KP starts in 1989 as the Berlin wall falls and recollects life from the time as a toddler he and his mother took refuge with an aunt in Provence after her Catholic family in Paris had disowned her. The suffering of taunts and bulleying from French children - 'the German brat, the German brat' and the eventual move to KP's German family near Lubeck on the West German side of the West-East German border. There on an estate recovering from war KP learns about life. He is clever, multi-lingual, goes to university in Heidelberg and also in England (Oxford) where he discovers that people are similar regardless of nationality. And he falls in love....
THE CLEMATIS TREE 'You want to go on reading, you want to know what happens.' Ruth Rendell, The Sunday Times 'She has crafted a compelling story about the way a family copes with catastrophe.' Bel Mooney, The Times 'A delight, a very polished read.' Peter Stanford, Catholic Herald 'A well-constructed novel . . . It tackles the issues you'd expect, particularly euthanasia, but in a humane, thoughtful and undidactic manner, offering no easy answers.' Harpers and Queen AN ACT OF TREACHERY 'A tale of illicit love, hate, and loss in Occupied France . . . confirming [Widdecombe] as an eloquent story-teller.' Glasgow Herald 'A gripping read.' Sunday Express ''Widdecombe is to be applauded for the range of her ambition within this book: the admirably large cast of characters is well handled; their dilemmas are believable and the narrative makes for compulsive reading.' The Times
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- EditorialOrion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Año de publicación2006
- ISBN 10 0752865137
- ISBN 13 9780752865133
- EncuadernaciónBroché
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