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Author Leal, Suzanne, 1967-

Title The deceptions / Suzanne Leal
Published Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (289 pages)
Summary "In 1943, a young woman is taken to a Jewish ghetto outside Prague where one of the guards - a Czech gendarme - is quickly drawn to her. Believing he will offer her protection, Hana reluctantly accepts Karel's advances only to find herself alone and abandoned in Auschwitz. Decades later, Karel carries his regrets to Sydney where he and his family try to make a new life for themselves. Despite her devotion to the family, Karel's wife is a troubled woman, haunted by a secret that will not leave her as the consequences of her actions as a young woman continue to reverberate both within her family and further afield. Meanwhile, the couple's daughter is still reeling from her husband's infidelities as, unbeknownst to any of them, their cherished granddaughter becomes more and more entangled with her married boss. Outwardly harmonious, this is a fractured family whose lives are built on foundations of lies and deceptions - foundations that threaten to completely collapse as old transgressions re-emerge in the lead up to a long-awaited family wedding."--Provided by publisher
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Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Fiction
Holocaust survivors -- Fiction
Dysfunctional families -- Fiction
Family secrets -- Fiction
Adultery -- Fiction
Families -- Fiction
Secrecy -- Fiction
Holocaust survivors
Family secrets
Dysfunctional families
Adultery
Families
Secrecy
SUBJECT Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
Subject Poland
New South Wales -- Sydney
Genre/Form Modern fiction
Fiction
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1760873837
9781760873837