Synopsis: Distant Signs is an intimate portrait of two families spanning three generations amidst turbulent political change, behind and beyond the Berlin Wall. In 1960s East Germany, Margret, a professor’s daughter from the city, meets and marries Hans, from a small village in Thuringia. The couple struggle to contend with their different backgrounds, and the emotional scars they bear from childhood in the aftermath of war. As East German history gradually unravels, with collision of the personal and political, their two families’ hidden truths are quietly revealed. An exquisitely written novel with strongly etched characters that stay with you long after the book is finished and an authentic portrayal of family life behind the iron curtain based on personal experience of the author who is East German and was 16 years old at the fall of the Berlin Wall. Why do families repeat destructive patterns of behaviour across generations? Should the personal take precedence over...
I love C.W. Grotner's books! While this series of books hasn't been my favorite, I did still really enjoy the first 2 and I'd love to get to the third eventually. And while it's been seemingly forever since I've read the little house books, but keep thinking about rereading them lately!
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ReplyDeleteNever got to a Gortner as yet. This sounds very good.
ReplyDeleteOoooooooo...I love the cover of The Tudor Vendetta. I would read that book. The title is intriguing as well. :)
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I enjoyed one of Gortner's other books so I hope you like the one you received.
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