Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman

Friedrich Christian Delius
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Rome one January afternoon in 1943. A young German woman is on her way to listen to a Bach concert at the Lutheran church. Innocent and naïve, the war is for her little more than a day-dream, until she realizes that her husband might never return. This is a mesmerizing psychological portrait of the human need to safeguard innocence and integrity at any cost - even at the risk of excluding reality.
Genres: Historical FictionFictionGermanyItalyGerman LiteratureWorld War IINovellaWarLiterary FictionNovels
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