INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER GoodReads Choice Awards
Semifinalist "Moving . . . a plot that surprises and
devastates."--New York Times Book Review "A masterful
epic."--People magazine "Mesmerizing . . . The Women in the Castle
stands tall among the literature that reveals new truths about one
of history's most tragic eras."--USA Today 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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