The Pieces from Berlin by Michael Pye
In the great disorder of wartime Berlin, Lucia Muller-Rossi was an unofficial star: mistress to an Ambassador, the whole world to her young son, and guardian of all the lovely things her Jewish friends were forced to leave behind as they took the trains tothe death camps. Sixty years later, one of those fine pieces sits for sale in the window of Lucia's antiques shop-- and its true owner happens to pass by. In that moment, a whole lifetime of silence cracks open and Lucia's family face the wrenching duty of examining a past almost too horrifying to remember.Michael Pye works as a author, journalist, historian, and broadcaster for a living. By birth, he is English, but a study in Italy and a newspaper apprenticeship in Scotland have civilized him. He worked as a political and cultural journalist for British publications for 20 years, commuting between New York and Europe. He now lives in a little community in the Portuguese countryside with his partner John Holm. He has eight books to his credit, including The Cinema Brats, co-authored with Lynda Myles, which was the first major study of what the Scorsese generation did to Hollywood; King Over The Sea, which uncovered the Duke of Windsor's manipulations in the wartime Bahamas; Maximum City, a New York biography that set out to find the foundations and history of the city's charm; and The Drownin', which was the first comprehensive study of what the Scorsese generation did
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| ISBN 13 | 9780375414367 |
| ISBN 10 | 0375414363 |
| Title | The Pieces from Berlin |
| Author | Michael Pye |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Year published | 2003-02-25 |
| Number of pages | 335 |
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