04009cam a2200565 i 4500 24816 24816 952207130 OCoLC 20190501235424.0 160624s2017 nyu 000 f eng 2016023355 9780062563668 hardcover 0062563661 hardcover 9780062563682 electronic book 9780062644190 large print (OCoLC)952207130 nmt pcc e-gx--- Shattuck, Jessica, author 1287 The women in the castle / Jessica Shattuck First edition New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017] 356 pages ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "A novel"--Book jacket Three women, haunted by the past and the secrets they hold Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined--an affecting, shocking, and ultimately redemptive novel from the author of the New York Times Notable Book The Hazards of Good Breeding. Amid the ashes of Nazi Germany's defeat, Marianne von Lingenfels returns to the once-grand castle of her husband's ancestors, an imposing stone fortress now fallen into ruin following years of war. The widow of a resister murdered in the failed July 20, 1944, plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Marianne plans to uphold the promise she made to her husband's brave conspirators: to find and protect their wives, her fellow resistance widows. First Marianne rescues six-year-old Martin, the son of her dearest childhood friend, from a Nazi reeducation home. Together, they make their way across the smoldering wreckage of their homeland to Berlin, where Martin's mother, the beautiful and naive Benita, has fallen into the hands of occupying Red Army soldiers. Then she locates Ania, another resister's wife, and her two boys, now refugees languishing in one of the many camps that house the millions displaced by the war. As Marianne assembles this makeshift family from the ruins of her husband's resistance movement, she is certain their shared pain and circumstances will hold them together. But she quickly discovers that the black-and-white, highly principled world of her privileged past has become infinitely more complicated, filled with secrets and dark passions that threaten to tear them apart. Eventually, all three women must come to terms with the choices that have defined their lives before, during, and after the war--each with their own unique share of challenges 1945-1955 fast 1288 Castles Germany Bavaria Fiction 1289 Interpersonal relations Fiction 80 Widows Fiction 971 FICTION Literary. bisacsh 1290 FICTION Historical. bisacsh 1291 Castles. fast (OCoLC)fst00848428 1292 Interpersonal relations. fast (OCoLC)fst00977397 803 Widows. fast (OCoLC)fst01174951 1293 Interpersonal relations Fiction 1294 Germany History 1945-1955 Fiction 1295 Germany. fast (OCoLC)fst01210272 1296 Germany Bavaria. fast (OCoLC)fst01211843 1297 Historical fiction. gsafd 569 Fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst01423787 240 History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 533 Historical fiction. lcgft 569 Historical fiction 569 Online version: Shattuck, Jessica, author. Women in the castle. First edition. New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017 9780062563682 (DLC) 2016029873 .b148583076 ddc BOOK ddc 0 0 ABELJ abelj AF 2017-05-10 26.99 5 1 SHAT 36736 2019-05-07 2019-05-07 2017-05-10 BOOK