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Thomas Dunne
October 2011
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Featuring: Edith; Georg
352 pages
ISBN: 0312606923
EAN: 9780312606923
Hardcover
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Martin Fletcher has captivated television audiences for
thirty-five years as a foreign correspondent for NBC News.
Now, Fletcher combines his own family’s history with
meticulous research in this gripping story of a young Jewish
family struggling to stay afloat after World War II.
London, October 1945. Austrian
refugees Georg and Edith await the birth of their first
child. Yet how can they celebrate when almost every day
brings news of another relative or friend murdered in the
Holocaust? Their struggle to rebuild their lives is further
threatened by growing anti-Semitism in London's streets;
Englishmen want to take homes and jobs from Jewish refugees
and give them to returning servicemen. Edith's
father is believed to have survived, and finding him rests
on Georg's shoulders. Then Georg learns of a plot by
Palestinian Jews to assassinate Britain’s foreign minister.
Georg must try to stop the murder, all the while navigating
a city that wants to "eject the aliens." In The
List, Fletcher investigates an ignored and painful chapter
in London’s history. The novel is both a breathless thriller
of postwar sabotage and a heartrending and historically
accurate portrait of an almost forgotten era. In this
sensitive, deeply touching, and impossible-to-forget story,
Martin Fletcher explores the themes of hope, prejudice, loss
and love that make up the lives of all refugees everywhere.
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