The Kommandant's Girl
In her luminous and groundbreaking debut, bestselling author Pam Jenoff shows the unimaginable sacrifices one woman must make in a time of warNineteen-year-old Emma Bau has been married only three weeks when Nazi tanks thunder into her native Poland. Within days Emma's husband, Jacob, is forced...
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In her luminous and groundbreaking debut, bestselling author Pam Jenoff shows the unimaginable sacrifices one woman must make in a time of warNineteen-year-old Emma Bau has been married only three weeks when Nazi tanks thunder into her native Poland. Within days Emma's husband, Jacob, is forced to disappear underground, leaving her imprisoned within the city's decrepit Jew
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780778320586 (0778320588)
ASIN: 778320588
Publisher: Mira
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Category:
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Adult,
War,
Jewish,
World War II,
Holocaust,
Poland
Series: The Kommandant's Girl (#1)
Wie weit würdest du gehen? Der Kommandant und des Mädchen ist einfach ein zauberhafter Roman, voller Gefühl, Geschichte und einer Liebesaffäre die ganz ungekünstelt und unverkitscht erzählt wurde. Emma ist eine Jüdin zu Zeiten des zweiten Weltkrieges in Krakau. Ihr Mann Jakub arbeitet im Widerstand...
I couldn't finish this book. I understand it's Jenoff's first book, but there is far too much showing not telling. Emma's change of emotions is far too sudden. We're told that she starved in the Ghetto, but in terms of the book, it feels like she was only in the ghetto for five minutes. Even tak...
This is Pam Jenoff's debut novel, and well... you can tell. The writing is a little amateur (she uses the word 'realize' a lot. Almost to the point that I was distracted by it every time.) And some of the plot turns felt a little fast and underdeveloped.But overall this is a good novel. It takes pla...
17 years ago
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