MIRA
October 2016
On Sale: September 27, 2016
384 pages ISBN: 0778320588 EAN: 9780778320586 Kindle: B01B1J6WSM Trade Size / e-Book (reprint) Add to Wish List
In her luminous and groundbreaking debut, bestselling
author Pam Jenoff shows the unimaginable sacrifices one
woman must make in a time of war
Nineteen-year-old Emma Bau has been married only three weeks
when Nazi tanks thunder into her native Poland. Within days
Emma's husband, Jacob, is forced to disappear underground,
leaving her imprisoned within the city's decrepit Jewish
ghetto. But then, in the dead of night, the resistance
smuggles her out. Taken to Krakow to live with Jacob's
Catholic aunt, Krysia, Emma takes on a new identity as Anna
Lipowski, a gentile.
Emma's already precarious situation is complicated by her
introduction to Kommandant Richwalder, a high-ranking Nazi
official who hires her to work as his assistant. Urged by
the resistance to use her position to access details of the
Nazi occupation, Emma must compromise her safety—and her
marriage vows—in order to help Jacob's cause. As the
atrocities of war intensify, so does Emma's relationship
with the Kommandant, building to a climax that will risk not
only her double life, but also the lives of those she loves.