Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota.Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph: a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmführer of Buchenwald.
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Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota.Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph: a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmführer of Buchenwald.
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'Impossible' Max breathes. 'This is impossible.' Anna bends to put her lips to his ear 'No, it's not' she whispers. 'I know where to hide you. I have the perfect place.'
For fifty years Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota.
Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph: a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmführer of Buchenwald. Driven by guilt about her supposed Trudy, now a professor of German history, begins investigating the past and finally unearths the dramatic and heartbreaking truth about her mother's life.
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“A compelling and often heart-wrenching work.”
The Observer Jenna Blum's seductive, subtle style kept me hooked. Sunday Telegraph Jenna Blum's seductive, subtle style kept me hooked. Independent on Sunday An emotive and incisive endeavour. Guardian
About the Author
Jenna Blum lived in London and Minneapolis before settling in Boston, where she now teaches at Boston University and Grub Street Writers. Jenna is of German and Jewish descent and worked for Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation for four years, interviewing Holocaust survivors. Those Who Save Us is her first novel. She currently teaches at Boston University and is the fiction editor for AGNI magazine.
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'Blum's novel has the readability of a saga but the weight of something more' MetroFor fifty years Anna has refused to talk about her life as a civilian in World War II Germany. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when Anna fell for an Allied solider and they began their new life in America. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph: a family portrait showing her with her mother and a Nazi officer. Trudy begins a quest that will reveal Anna's cruel war. And the shame that kept a mother from sharing her heartbreak.'Gripping and shocking, and packs a powerful emotional punch' Daily Mail'Jenna Blum's seductive, subtle style kept me hooked' Sunday Telegraph'A powerful evocation of terrible events, moving and persuasive.' Penelope Lively'A penetrating novel which touches the heart and questions the conscience' Independent on SundayCover photo
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