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The Devil Comes to Bonn
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The Devil Comes to Bonn
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List price R314
Loot Price R260
Discovery Miles 2 600
You Save R54 (17%)
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2015. Stella, a professor and historian, comes to the beautiful and
ancient city of Bonn, Germany, for a World Heritage conference.
With things at home tearing at the seams, she is determined to
pretend all is well. At least, until she is assaulted over a
trivial matter by another delegate, Professor Giovanni Costa.
Bewildered, Stella descends into a shadowy observer, slowly
becoming an obsessed stalker. When she meets the elderly Hildegard
on a park bench by the River Rhine she is drawn into her wartime
story, little seeing the similarities to her own situation. 1941.
Hildegard, new wife to Kurt and student of architecture, surrenders
to the inevitable; she needs a job for them to pay their rent.
Interviewing for a hotel post, she does not realise her life now is
off course, running on a track destined to collide with the
sinister Fuhrer himself. Although repulsed, she must play along
with the Fatherland ideals—to show anything but enthusiasm would
not only leave her without a job but probably worse circumstances.
She is thrust into the role of maid to Hitler in the infamous room
106 in a hotel he visited more than 70 times. She is no longer able
to hide away from reality in her studies. Moving forward is the
only option, no matter how dark it gets. With the story switching
between 2015 and 1941, Stella and Hildegard face questions of
survival, identity, love and meaning as they juggle moral
ambiguities in a world of elusive justice.
General
Imprint: |
Matador
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
July 2023 |
Authors: |
Jennifer Harris
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Dimensions: |
216 x 138mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
328 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-80313-762-9 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-80313-762-2 |
Barcode: |
9781803137629 |
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