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Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100345449053
ISBN-139780345449054
eBay Product ID (ePID)2263459
Product Key Features
Original LanguageGerman
Book TitleEva's Cousin : a Novel
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2002
TopicLiterary, Historical
GenreFiction
AuthorSibylle Knauss
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight16.6 Oz
Item Length8.6 in
Item Width5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2002-019410
Reviews"An intimate portrait of two women at the center of history and how innocence itself can be a crime against humanity. My book of the year." -LINDA GRANT Orange Prize-winning author ofWhen I Lived in Modern Times, "An intimate portrait of two women at the center of history and how innocence itself can be a crime against humanity. My book of the year." -LINDA GRANT Orange Prize-winning author of When I Lived in Modern Times
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal833/.914
SynopsisBerchtesgaden, Germany, is a beautiful place, set among the gentle meadow-clad hills rising to the sheer heights of bare Alpine peaks. It is here where an elderly woman arrives and recollects her past-and her peripheral role in a chapter of world history. She walks along a beaten path, which has come into being because so many tourists have ventured this way . . . to see something that exists only in her memory. In the summer of 1944, twenty-year-old Marlene is thrilled when her older, more glamorous cousin, Eva Braun, Adolph Hitler's mistress, invites her to come to the Fuhrer's Bavarian mountain retreat. Against her father's wishes, Marlene accepts, and immediately sets forth to Berghof. There, while Hitler is away desperately trying to turn the tides of war, Marlene finds herself in a strange paradise, a world of opulence and imminent danger, of freedom and surveillance. The two women sneak off and skinny-dip in a nearby-lake, watch films in the Fuhrer's private cinema, and flirt with the SS officers at the dinner table-one of whom will become Marlene's first lover. Initially delighted by Eva's attentions, Marlene later tries to understand the elusive connection between her cousin and the man she loves. In quiet defiance, she begins to commit her own acts of subversion, which include listening to BBC radio broadcasts, forbidden by the Fuhrer. But a clandestine mission of mercy will force her to question her allegiance to both her cousin and her country-and to face the chilling reality that exists outside her sheltered world. Based on the true experiences of Eva Braun's cousin, Gertrude Weisker, who has shared her memories with Sibylle Knauss after more than fifty years of silence,Eva's Cousinis a novel that illuminates the banality of the domestic face of evil. It casts a special light on the profound questions of innocence and complicity that still haunt much of the world today.
LC Classification NumberPT2671.N327
