Earthly Creatures

For all her life, idealistic 20-year-old bookworm Magdalena Arber has been split down the middle: veering wildly between fidelity to indoctrinated Nazi beliefs, and her father''s humanist values. Then comes the summons - the Nazi War Labour Service is conscripting her into a teaching position in East Prussia. Magda is elated. It''s a release from the cosy cage of childhood, and a chance to form young minds. She enters a lush rural world of forests, lakes, and meadows where order prevails. Yet there are monstrous hands out to shape the whole continuum of earthly creatures. The Gestapo are a lurking darkness. There is bombing further East, and news of a moving Russian front. Will Alt Schonbek burn as well? Can Magda survive?

Product details

• Authors: Stevie Davies
• Publisher: Honno Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2024
• EAN: 9781916821019
• ISBN: 978-1-916821-01-9
• No. of pages: 269
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 356 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945)