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"East Village, 1989. Things had never been easy between Ava Fisher and her estranged mother Ilse. Too many questions hovered between them: Who was Ava's father? Where had Ilse been during the war? Why had she left her only child in a German orphanage during the war's final months? But now Ilse's ashes have arrived from Germany, and with them, a trove of unsent letters addressed to someone else unknown to Ava: Renate Bauer, a childhood friend. As her mother's letters unfurl a dark past, Ava spirals deep into the shocking history of a woman she never truly knew. Berlin, 1933. As the Nazi party…

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5 editions · 2 languages
  • Hardcover · English · 2019
    Crown · 384 pages · 9780525576907
  • Other · English · 2019
    Crown Publishing Group · 448 pages · 9781984824905
  • Other · English · 2019
    Thorndike Press · 9781432865337
  • Other · English · 1920
    Random House of Canada · 384 pages · 9780525576914
  • Other · Spanish · 2021
    amante del Tercer Reich
    Ediciones B · 9788466668071
Fiction, historicalGermany, fictionNew york (n.y.), fictionAmerican literatureFemale friendshipFictionMothers and daughtersPolitics and government