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Carry Me: A Novel

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Carry Me: A Novel

A devastating novel of war, love, and escape from the award-winning author of The Law of Dreams and The Oâ€™Briens
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During childhood summers on the sunstruck Isle of Wight in the years before the First World War, Billy is entranced by Karin, the elusive daughter of a German-Jewish industrialist. Reunited on a Frankfurt estate in that warâ€™s hungry aftermath, Karin and Billy become fascinated with tribal rituals found in the Wild West stories of Karl May, whose Winnetou tales are among the most popular books published in Germany. Coming of age in Frankfurt and Berlin, Karin and Billy share a passion for speed, jazz, and nightclubs. They also share a fantasy of escapeâ€”from darkening Germany, from historyâ€”to El Llano Estacado, the high plains of Texas and New Mexico, vividly reimagined in Mayâ€™s fiction.
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Intriguing characters braid this intricate and harrowing story together, from golden Edwardian summers to London under Zeppelin attack, Ireland on the brink of its War of Independence, and Germany collapsing into the Hitler era. As a society loses its civic and moral bearings, a childhood friendship deepens into a love affair with extraordinarily high stakes. Brilliantly conceived and elegantly written, Carry Me is an epic for grown-ups, an unusual love story, and a lucid meditation on Europeâ€™s violent twentieth century.

Country	USA
Author	Peter Behrens
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9781101870495
Edition	1St Edition
Format	Deckle Edge
ISBN	1101870494
Label	Pantheon
Manufacturer	Pantheon
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	464
PublicationDate	2016-02-23
Publisher	Pantheon
ReleaseDate	2016-02-23
Studio	Pantheon

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