Simply to Die for by Joyce Christmas

Simply to Die for by Joyce Christmas

Winner, Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Fiction>
Vine National Canadian Jewish Book Awards (Fiction), Shortlist>

Inspired by the true story of a dangerous atomic weapon and the man who designed it, here is a stunning novel of morality, creation, and loss from the acclaimed author of>The Honey Farm and>Natural Killer.

It is August 12, 1945. Tomorrow, August Snow will be tried at the International War Crimes Court for patenting a more lethal variation on the atomic bomb. He invented a radiation machine to cure his young daughter's cancer, despite knowing that the very same technology was capable of great destruction, and inevitably profited from disaster. But are his intentions relevant when the fate of the world is at stake?

August's former wife, June, will also attend the hearing. Restless in her Hague hotel room the night before, she keeps watch over their daughter and reflects on the events that brought them here. She had nothing to do with making the bomb. But is she innocent? Wouldn't any wife and mother have done the same thing in her shoes? And now, will it cost her everything?

Inspired by the physicist Le Szil rd and the letters he wrote his wife, Gertrud Trude Weiss, Let It Destroy You>is told in parallel narratives and ventures from Budapest to Berlin to Colorado, and back to Europe. It is a love story about two people whose destinies are bound by everything they share, and all that they've kept from one another. Above all, it is a testament to the logic-defying love of a parent who will stop at nothing to protect their child.

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ISBN 13	9780449145395
ISBN 10	0449145395
Titel	Simply to Die for
Autor	Joyce Christmas
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Fawcett Books
Erscheinungsjahr	1989-09-30
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.