The Dutch Wife by Ellen Keith
A sweeping story of love and survival during World War IIAMSTERDAM, MAY 1943. As the tulips bloom and the Nazis tighten their grip across the city, the last signs of Dutch resistance are being swept away. Marijke de Graaf and her husband are arrested and deported to different concentration camps in Germany. Marijke is given a terrible choice: to suffer a slow death in the labor camp or--for a chance at survival--to join the camp brothel.
On the other side of the barbed wire, SS officer Karl MYller arrives at the camp hoping to live up to his father's expectations of wartime glory. When he encounters the newly arrived Marijke, this meeting changes their lives forever.
Woven into the narrative across space and time is Luciano Wagner's ordeal in 1977 Buenos Aires, during the heat of the Argentine Dirty War. In his struggle to endure military captivity, he searches for ways to resist from a prison cell he may never leave.
From the Netherlands to Germany to Argentina, The Dutch Wife braids together the stories of three individuals who share a dark secret and are entangled in two of the most oppressive reigns of terror in modern history. This is a novel about the blurred lines between love and lust, abuse and resistance, and right and wrong, as well as the capacity for ordinary people to persevere and do the unthinkable in extraordinary circumstances.
Don't miss THE DUTCH ORPHAN! Ellen's next riveting novel set about a woman who must choose between family loyalty and her own safety.
ELLEN KEITH is a Canadian writer who earned her MA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. She has received the Anton Fiction Award and the James Patrick Folinsbee Memorial Fellowship in Creative Writing for her writing, which has featured in journals such as The New Quarterly and the Globe and Mail. She is a resident of Amsterdam. Her debut novel is The Dutch Wife.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780778369769 |
| ISBN 10 | 0778369765 |
| Title | The Dutch Wife |
| Author | Ellen Keith |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Park Row |
| Year published | 2018-09-04 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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