| Description |
369 pages ; 20 cm |
| Summary |
When Hitler comes to power in 1933, a tight-knit group of friends and lovers become hunted outlaws overnight. United in their resistance to the madness and tyranny of Nazism, they flee the country. Dora, passionate and fearless; her lover, the greate playwright Ernst Toller; her younger cousin Ruth and Ruth's husband Hans find refuge in London. Here they take awe-inspiring risks in order to continue their work in secret. But England is not the safe-haven they think it is, and a single, chilling act of betrayal will tear them apart. Some seventy years later, Ruth is living out her days is Sydney, making an uneasy peace with the ghosts of her past, and a part of history that has all but been forgotten |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
First published: 2011 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Winner, ABIA Book of the Year, 2012; shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, Fiction, 2012 |
| Subject |
Australian fiction.
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Betrayal -- Fiction.
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Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
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Nazis -- England -- London -- Fiction.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
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| SUBJECT |
Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115191
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Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054640 -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
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Great Britain -- History -- 20th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056824 -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
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| Genre/Form |
War fiction.
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Reading nook.
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Novels.
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| ISBN |
0143567519 (paperback) |
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9780143567516 (paperback) |
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