A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. "With bald honesty and brutal lyricism" (Elle), the anonymous author depicts her fellow Berliners...
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. "With bald honesty and brutal lyricism" (Elle), the anonymous author depicts her fellow Berliners in all their humanity, as well as their cravenness, corrupted first by hunger and then by the Russians. "Spare and unpredictable, minutely observed and utterly free of self-pity" (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland), A Woman in Berlin tells of the complex relationship between civilians and an occupying army and the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject--the mass rape suffered by all, regardless of age or infirmity.A Woman in Berlin stands as "one of the essential books for understanding war and life" (A. S. Byatt, author of Possession).
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312426118 (0312426119)
Publish date: July 11th 2006
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
European Literature,
Cultural,
War,
Biography Memoir,
World War II,
German Literature,
Germany
I've read a lot of historical fiction and non-fiction set in World War II, but A Woman in Berlin is my first book written from the perspective of a German woman during the fall of Berlin. Written in diary form by an author who asked her publishers to keep her identity secret until after her death, i...
I've read a lot of historical fiction and non-fiction set in World War II, but A Woman in Berlin is my first book written from the perspective of a German woman during the fall of Berlin. Written in diary form by an author who asked her publishers to keep her identity secret until after her death, ...
I think everybody should read this book. When I began it I warned others that it is about rape in wartime. And that is true. Any subject in a good author’s hands can be worth reading. It is the ability of the author to make that subject comprehensible to readers that distinguishes a good author. We ...
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