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Clara's TalePierre Peju

Clara's Tale

2007304 pages
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Paul, a young Frenchman, meets Clara in the Bavarian village of Kehlstein during the 1960s. He is the son of a Resistance fighter, murdered in mysterious circumstances; she, the daughter of a doctor who had served in the Wehrmacht. Both were born at a time when Europe was at last at peace, yet they are both victims of history, for each of them bears the weight of pain and memory, and each is an indirect witness to the crimes and ravages of war. Paul's and Clara's paths are to cross and entwine in unexpected ways over the years. Paul becomes a sculptor, she a photographer, but in their work,…

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  • Hardcover · English · 2007
    Harvill Secker · 304 pages · 9781846550072
ArtistsFictionFriendshipParentsMemoryWorld War, 1939-1945HistoryArtists, fiction