![]() ![]() Perfect for fans of THE READER, THE DARK ROOM and THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS. ĭeeply moving and compelling, THE WOMEN OF THE CASTLE is a heart-wrenching and hopeful novel of secrets and survival, a reckoning, and the astonishing power of forgiveness. ![]() Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Glamour, Mother Jones, and Wired among others. Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once. Jessica Shattuck is the New York Times Bestselling author of The Women in the Castle, The Hazards of Good Breeding (a New York Times Notable Book and finalist for the PEN/Winship Award), and Perfect Life. She is certain their shared past will bind them together.īut as Benita begins a clandestine relationship and Ania struggles to conceal her role in the Nazi regime, Marianne learns that her clear-cut, highly principled world view has no place in these new, frightening and emotionally-charged days.Īll three women must grapple with the realities they now face, and the consequences of decisions each made in the darkest of times. Three women, haunted by the past and the secrets they hold. She assembles a makeshift family from the ruins of her husband's movement, rescuing her dearest friend's widow, Benita, from sexual slavery to the Russian army, and Ania from a work camp for political prisoners. The Women in the Castle stands tall among the literature that reveals new truths about one of history’s most tragic eras.'USA TodayThree women, haunted by the past and the secrets they holdSet at the end of World War II, in a. surprises and devastates.'New York Times Book Review'A masterful epic.'People magazine'Mesmerizing. Marianne - widow of a resistor to the Nazi regime - returns to the grand, crumbling castle where she once played host to all of German high society. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Moving. ![]()
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