Author : Kurt Palka
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart Limited
ISBN 13 : 0771071310
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)
Book Synopsis Patient Number 7 by : Kurt Palka
Download or read book Patient Number 7 written by Kurt Palka and published by McClelland & Stewart Limited. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by a true story and based on a wealth of family documents, this elegant and compelling novel chronicles the lives of two families from the 1930s through the coming of the Nazis and World War II, and the long, difficult post-War period to the present. A must-read for fans of Irene Nemirovsky, Hans Fallada, and Bernhard Schlink's The Reader. This vividly realized, masterfully executed novel is a window into a little-explored corner of history. Patient Number 7 is a story of love between an aristocratic young woman and the cavalry officer -- later Panzer officer in the German army -- she marries; between friends who help each other through the Nazi takeover of Austria, the war, and what was sometimes worse, the "liberation"; between a mother and her two very different daughters. But it is also the story of a nation's darkest days, and its slow recovery during one of the most convulsive, violent periods of human history. Beautifully written, haunting, and ultimately redemptive, it is a work of great skill and great compassion.