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William Morrow
April 2017
On Sale: April 4, 2017
368 pages
ISBN: 0062563661
EAN: 9780062563668
Kindle: B01I9BQA5U
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Historical
Three women, haunted by the past and the secrets they
hold 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 widows whose lives
and fates become intertwined—an affecting, shocking, and
ultimately redemptive novel from the author of the New
York Times Notable Book The Hazards of Good
Breeding. Amid the ashes of Nazi Germany’s defeat, Marianne von
Lingenfels returns to the once-grand castle of her husband’s
ancestors, an imposing stone fortress now fallen into ruin
following years of war. 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. First Marianne rescues six-year-old Martin, the son of her
dearest childhood friend, from a Nazi reeducation home.
Together, they make their way across the smoldering wreckage
of their homeland to Berlin, where Martin’s mother, the
beautiful and naive Benita, has fallen into the hands of
occupying Red Army soldiers. Then she locates Ania, another
resister’s wife, and her two boys, now refugees languishing
in one of the many camps that house the millions displaced
by the war. As Marianne assembles this makeshift family from the ruins
of her husband’s resistance movement, she is certain their
shared pain and circumstances will hold them together. But
she quickly discovers that the black-and-white, highly
principled world of her privileged past has become
infinitely more complicated, filled with secrets and dark
passions that threaten to tear them apart. Eventually, all
three women must come to terms with the choices that have
defined their lives before, during, and after the war—each
with their own unique share of challenges. Written with the devastating emotional power of The
Nightingale, Sarah’s Key, and The Light Between
Oceans, 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, love, and, ultimately, to forgive in the wake of
unimaginable hardship.
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