Ellen Keith

Amsterdam, May 1943. As the tulips bloom and the Nazis tighten their grip across the city, the last signs of Dutch resistance are being swept away. Marijke de Graaf and her husband are arrested and deported to different concentration camps in Germany. Marijke is given a terrible choice: to suffer a slow death in the labour camp or—for a chance at survival—to join the camp brothel. On the other side of the barbed wire, SS officer Karl Müller arrives at the camp hoping to live up to his father’s expectations of wartime glory. But faced with a brutal routine of overseeing executions and punishments, he longs for an escape. When he encounters the newly arrived Marijke, this meeting changes their lives forever. Woven into the narrative across space and time is Luciano Wagner’s ordeal in 1977 Buenos Aires, during the heat of the Argentine Dirty War. In his struggle to endure military captivity, he searches for ways to resist from a prison cell he may never leave. From the Netherlands to Germany to Argentina, The Dutch Wife braids together the stories of three individuals who share a dark secret and are entangled in two of the most oppressive reigns of terror in modern history. This is a novel about the blurred lines between love and lust, abuse and resistance, and right and wrong, as well as the capacity for ordinary people to persevere and do the unthinkable in extraordinary circumstances.

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A sweeping story of survival during World War II Amsterdam, May 1943. As the tulips bloom and the Nazis tighten their grip across the city, the last signs of Dutch resistance are being swept away. Marijke de Graaf and her husband are arrested and deported to different concentration camps in Germany. Marijke is given a terrible choice: to suffer a slow death in the labor camp or—for a chance at survival—to join the camp brothel. On the other side of the barbed wire, SS officer Karl MŸller arrives at the camp hoping to live up to his father’s expectations of wartime glory. When he encounters the newly arrived Marijke, this meeting changes their lives forever. Woven into the narrative across space and time is Luciano Wagner’s ordeal in 1977 Buenos Aires, during the heat of the Argentine Dirty War. In his struggle to endure military captivity, he searches for ways to resist from a prison cell he may never leave. From the Netherlands to Germany to Argentina, The Dutch Wife braids together the stories of three individuals who share a dark secret and are entangled in two of the most oppressive reigns of terror in modern history. This is a novel about the blurred lines between love and lust, abuse and resistance, and right and wrong, as well as the capacity for ordinary people to persevere and do the unthinkable in extraordinary circumstances.

«Una lettura indimenticabile.» Pam Jenoff, autrice di La ragazza della neve Amsterdam, 1943. Mentre i tulipani sbocciano, i nazisti si stringono intorno alla città. Quando gli ultimi barlumi di resistenza sono spazzati via, Marijke de Graaf e suo marito vengono arrestati e deportati in due diversi campi di concentramento in Germania. Marijke si trova davanti a una scelta terribile: andare incontro a una morte lenta nel campo di lavoro oppure, nella speranza di sopravvivere, unirsi al bordello del campo. Dall’altra parte del filo spinato, l’ufficiale delle SS Karl Müller spera di essere all’altezza delle aspettative di gloria di suo padre. L’incontro con Marijke, però, cambia il suo destino. Buenos Aires, 1977. È in corso la “guerra sporca” argentina, una repressione violenta di tutti i dissidenti al regime. Luciano Wagner si trova in una cella senza sapere se uscirà mai di prigione. Dall’Olanda alla Germania, fino all’Argentina, la storia di tre persone che condividono un segreto sta per intrecciarsi all’ombra di due dei regimi più terribili di tutta la storia moderna. In tempi difficili facciamo ciò che è necessario Una deportata olandese, un ufficiale delle SS e un prigioniero del regime militare argentino Nascondono un segreto pericoloso... «I lettori saranno ricompensati da questa lettura originale e indimenticabile.» Pam Jenoff, autrice di La ragazza della neve «Questo libro annuncia a gran voce l’esordio di una scrittrice coraggiosa e che sa emozionare.» «Una storia struggente e piena di speranza, che dimostra la capacità dell’animo umano di sopravvivere all’orrore.» Ellen Keith è una scrittrice canadese di successo, che ha vinto il prestigioso premio Harper Collins/UBC per la categoria Best New Fiction. Attualmente vive ad Amsterdam.

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