My Enemy's Cradle

Zusatztext ADVANCE PRAISE FOR MY ENEMY'S CRADLE   "In the tradition of Leon Uris and other writers, Sara Young has written about the bitterness, fragility, and especially the resilience of human spirit under the shadow of the beast. Her characters, living in Holland at the beginning of the Holocaust, manage to find reason where there is no reason, as well as innocence and passion, love and longing. No one who has ever felt joy against reason will fail to hear Young's song." --Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End Of The Ocean Informationen zum Autor Under the name Sara Pennypacker, SARA YOUNG has written seven books for children, including the acclaimed Stuart series (Stuart’s Cape) and Clementine. She lives on Cape Cod. Klappentext A young Jewish woman finds refuge from the terrors of WWII inside a Nazi birthing facility in this "gripping novel" set in war-torn Holland (Historical Novel Society). Cyrla's neighbors have begun to whisper. Her cousin, Anneke, is pregnant. And she's eligible for admission to the Lebensborn: a German maternity home for girls carrying Aryan babies. But Anneke's love, a German soldier, has disappeared. And she knows that Lebensborn babies are either released to their father's custody?or taken away. Meanwhile, someone has discovered the truth of Cyrla's identity. As a Polish Jew, she was sent to her Dutch relatives for safekeeping years ago. Now she must choose between certain discovery and posing as Anneke in the Lebensborn. But how can she take refuge in the enemy's lair? Mining a lost piece of history, author Sara Young takes readers deep inside the Nazi Lebensborn program. An elegy for the terrible choices women must sometimes make to survive, My Enemy's Cradle is also a story of finding love, hope, and humanity in the darkest of times. Leseprobe ONE   SEPTEMBER 1941   “Not here, too! Nee! ”   From the doorway, I saw soup splash from my aunt’s ladle onto the tablecloth. These days, there was no fat in the broth to set a stain; still, my heart dropped when she made no move to blot the spill. Since the Germans had come, she had retreated further into herself, fading away in front of me so that sometimes it was like losing my mother all over again.   “Of course here, Mies,” my uncle scoffed. His pale face pinked with the easy flush of red-haired men, and he leaned back and took off his glasses to polish them on his napkin. “Did you think the Germans would annex us as a refuge for Jews? The question is only why it took so long.”   I brought the bread to the table and took my seat. “What’s happened?”   “They posted a set of restrictions for Jews today,” my uncle said. “They’ll scarcely be able to leave their homes.” He inspected his glasses, put them back on. And then he turned to look at me directly.   I froze, my fingertips whitening around my spoon, suddenly reminded of something I’d witnessed in childhood.

Produktdetails

Autoren	Young Sara Young, Sara Young
Verlag	Harper Perennial USA
Sprache	Englisch
Produktform	Taschenbuch
Erschienen	06.10.2008
EAN	9780156034333
ISBN	978-0-15-603433-3
Seiten	384
Abmessung	135 mm x 203 mm x 24 mm
Themen	Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Historical romance, Europe, European History, Second World War fiction, Second World War, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), War, combat and military adventure fiction, WOMEN'S LITERATURE: LITERATURE/FICTION, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: General, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: War & Military, HISTORY: Military / World War II, JEWISH STUDIES: LITERATURE, LITERATURE: GENERAL FICTION, FICTION: Historical / World War II, HISTORY: Europe / General, HISTORY: Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, Literature / General Fiction, Women's Literature / Literature/Fiction, Jewish Studies / Literature

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Young Sara Young, Sara Young
• Verlag: Harper Perennial USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 06.10.2008
• EAN: 9780156034333
• ISBN: 978-0-15-603433-3
• Seiten: 384
• Abmessung: 135 mm x 203 mm x 24 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Historical romance, Europe, European History, Second World War fiction, Second World War, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), War, combat and military adventure fiction, WOMEN'S LITERATURE: LITERATURE/FICTION, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: General, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: War & Military, HISTORY: Military / World War II, JEWISH STUDIES: LITERATURE, LITERATURE: GENERAL FICTION, FICTION: Historical / World War II, HISTORY: Europe / General, HISTORY: Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, Literature / General Fiction, Women's Literature / Literature/Fiction, Jewish Studies / Literature