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In the tradition of All The Light We Cannot See and The Nightingale, comes an incandescent debut novel about a young Dutch man who comes of age during the perilousness of World War II. Beginning in the summer of 1939, fourteen-year-old Jacob Koopman and his older brother, Edwin, enjoy lives of prosperity and quiet contentment. Many of the residents in their small Dutch town have some connection to the Koopman lightbulb factory, and the locals hold...
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Berlin 1941. Hitler is about to invade the Soviet Union, and five young Germans eagerly await a glorious future: patriotic Wehrmacht lieutenant Wilhelm heads to the Eastern Front with his bookish younger brother Friedhelm in pursuit of the "final victory; " bright-eyed Charlotte volunteers as a field nurse to serve the brave German men; and chanteuse Greta aspires to be the next Marlene Dietrich. Only resourceful tailor Viktor, a Jew, begins to sense...
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English
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This Holocaust tale follows Hans, an aspiring artist since childhood, who becomes a talented architect. He rises from the Hitler Youth to the SS with dreams of leading Germany into a bright, new age. When he is assigned to Auschwitz-Birkenau, he completely believes in the cause. But when his superiors ask him to use his architecture skills to design and oversee construction of the notorious gas chambers, his perspective changes.
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