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Barcode37821002436646
LocationMarshall District
TitleThe living and the lost / Ellen Feldman.
AuthorFeldman, Ellen, 1941- author.
Call NoFIC FEL
CollectionAdult Fiction

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International Standard Book Number 9781250780829
International Standard Book Number 1250780829
Personal Name Feldman, Ellen, 1941- author.
Title Statement The living and the lost / Ellen Feldman.
Edition Statement First edition.
Imprint New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2021.
Physical Description 326 pages ; 22 cm.
General Note "Reading group gold"--Jacket.
General Note Includes reading group questions, interview with author, and more in unnumbered pages at end of work.
Summary, Etc. "Millie (Meike) Mosbach and her brother David, manage to escape to the States just before Kristallnacht, leaving their parents and little sister in Berlin. Millie attends Bryn Mawr on a special scholarship for non-Aryan German girls and graduates to a magazine job in Philadelphia. David enlists in the army and is eventually posted to the top-secret Camp Ritchie in Maryland, which trains German-speaking men for intelligence work. Now they are both back in their former hometown, haunted by ghosts and hoping against hope to find their family. Millie, works in the office responsible for rooting out the most dedicated Nazis from publishing; she is consumed with rage at her former country and its citizens, though she is finding it more difficult to hate in proximity. David works trying to help displaced persons build new lives, while hiding his more radical nighttime activities from his sister. Like most of their German-born American colleagues, they suffer from conflicts of rage and guilt at their own good fortune, except for Millie's boss, Major Harry Sutton, who seems much too eager to be fair to the Germans. Living and working in bombed-out Berlin, a latter day Wild West where drunken soldiers brawl; the desperate prey on the unsuspecting; spies ply their trade; werewolves, as unrepentant Nazis were called, scheme to rise again; black markets thrive, and forbidden fraternization is rampant, Millie must come to terms with a decision she made as a girl in a moment of crisis, and with the enigmatic sometimes infuriating Major Sutton who is mysteriously understanding of her demons." -Amazon.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Jews Germany Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Brothers and sisters Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Young women Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Jews, German Germany Berlin Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Survival Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Forgiveness Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Berlin (Germany) History 1945-1990 Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Historical fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Novels.