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Material Type: | Fiction |
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Document Type: | Book |
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David R Gillham |
ISBN: | 9780241962237 0241962234 |
OCLC Number: | 876442087 |
Notes: | Originaludgave: 2012 |
Description: | 389 sider |
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Gillham's Berlin is a terrified city, where nobody dare speak the truth and the smallest decision can cost you your life. A terrifically tense first novel * The Times * Gillham evokes beautiful and dark cinematic imagery, which lifts the story off the page * Big Issue * David Gillham's excellent new novel, City of Women, is built on one of the most extraordinary and faithful recreations of a time in history - Berlin in World War II - that I've ever read. -- Alan Furst In this moving and masterful debut, David Gillham brings war-torn Berlin to life and reveals the extraordinary mettle of women tested to their limits and beyond. Powerful and piercingly real. You won't soon forget these characters. -- Paula McLain, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife [A] stunning debut . . . Gillham puts a fresh spin on the horrors of WWII * Publishers Weekly * Scene after scene burns into the reader's memory . . . I can already imagine the film * Book Oxygen * A page-turner . . . City of Women challenges preconceptions * We Love This Book * Vividly cinematic yet subtle and full of moral ambiguity . . . riveting characters - is as impossible to put down as it is to forget * Kirkus * Read more...

