The Undertaking: A Novel

The Undertaking: A Novel

A â€œdeeply impressiveÂ .Â .Â . devastating but quite stunningâ€ novel about doomed love and ambition in Nazi Germany (Minneapolis Star-Tribune).
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Set during World War II amid the trenches of the eastern front and the turmoil of Berlin under the Third Reich,Â The UndertakingÂ intertwines the lives of two German strangers entering into a proxy marriage of convenience, self-interest, and of ideology.
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Peter Faber is a soldier desperate to escape the madness of war if only by a three-week honeymoon leave. His new wife is Katharine Spinell, a resourceful young woman from Berlin who anticipates the likelihood of a widowâ€™s pension should Peter die in battle. When they finally meet there is an attraction as unexpected as it is intense. But as Peter returns to Stalingrad, and as Katherine ruthlessly works her way into Nazi high society, the tides of war change. So do Peter and Katharineâ€™s fates and fortunes, in this â€œbold, honest novel about Nazi greed and moral blanknessÂ .Â .Â . and the small people who are inseparably part of a great ravagementâ€ (The Guardian).
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Finalist for the Baileys Womenâ€™s Prize for Fiction,Â The UndertakingÂ is â€œone of the most riveting accounts of love in time of war that this reviewer has ever readâ€ (Library JournalÂ (starred review)â€”â€œa violent, elegant, unsentimental journey through hell and halfway backâ€ (Chris Cleave, New York Timesâ€“bestselling author of Everyone Brave is Forgiven).
Country USA
Manufacturer Grove Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2018-11-20
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Grove Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2018-11-20
Format	Kindle eBook

The Undertaking: A Novel

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