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City of Women
by David Gillham
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Pub Date
31 Jan 2013
| Archive Date
31 Mar 2013
Description
City of Women is set in Berlin in 1943, when the majority of men are away fighting amongst the women left behind. Hiding her clandestine activities behind the persona of a model Nazi soldier’s wife, Sigrid Schroeder dreams of her former Jewish lover and risks everything to hide a mother and two young children who she believes might be her lover’s family.
The author, US based David Gillham has worked as a screen writer before becoming a novelist and the book has a cinematic feel. Though in some ways it's a familiar setting, its remarkable that all the action takes place within the confines of the city, you don't get any scenes in concentration camps or on the front line, which all adds to the pressure cooker atmosphere of rumours and paranoia.
City of Women is set in Berlin in 1943, when the majority of men are away fighting amongst the women left behind. Hiding her clandestine activities behind the persona of a model Nazi soldier’s wife...
Description
City of Women is set in Berlin in 1943, when the majority of men are away fighting amongst the women left behind. Hiding her clandestine activities behind the persona of a model Nazi soldier’s wife, Sigrid Schroeder dreams of her former Jewish lover and risks everything to hide a mother and two young children who she believes might be her lover’s family.
The author, US based David Gillham has worked as a screen writer before becoming a novelist and the book has a cinematic feel. Though in some ways it's a familiar setting, its remarkable that all the action takes place within the confines of the city, you don't get any scenes in concentration camps or on the front line, which all adds to the pressure cooker atmosphere of rumours and paranoia.
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Advance Praise
‘Powerful and
piercingly real. You won’t soon forget these characters’ Paula
McLain, author of The Paris
Wife
‘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, author of Spies of the
Balkans
‘World War II
Germany may be familiar ground, but Gillham's novel -- vividly cinematic yet
subtle and full of moral ambiguity, not to mention riveting characters -- is as
impossible to put down as it is to forget’ Kirkus
‘A stunning debut... Gillham’s
transcendent prose, powerfully drawn characters, and the multilayered dilemmas
make his first literary effort a powerful revelation’ Publisher’s Weekly
‘Powerful and
piercingly real. You won’t soon forget these characters’ Paula
McLain, author of The Paris
Wife
‘David Gillham's excellent new novel, City of Women, is built on one of the most...
Advance Praise
‘Powerful and
piercingly real. You won’t soon forget these characters’ Paula
McLain, author of The Paris
Wife
‘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, author of Spies of the
Balkans
‘World War II
Germany may be familiar ground, but Gillham's novel -- vividly cinematic yet
subtle and full of moral ambiguity, not to mention riveting characters -- is as
impossible to put down as it is to forget’ Kirkus
‘A stunning debut... Gillham’s
transcendent prose, powerfully drawn characters, and the multilayered dilemmas
make his first literary effort a powerful revelation’ Publisher’s Weekly
Marketing Plan
The book is a trade paperback printed with a vintage map of Berlin, under a wrap around jacket
The book is a trade paperback printed with a vintage map of Berlin, under a wrap around jacket
Available Editions
| EDITION |
Other Format |
| ISBN |
9780241145630 |
| PRICE |
£12.99 (GBP)
|
Additional Information
Available Editions
| EDITION |
Other Format |
| ISBN |
9780241145630 |
| PRICE |
£12.99 (GBP)
|
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