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The living and the lost, Ellen Feldman

eng

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fiction

The living and the lost

Ellen Feldman

"Millie Mosbach and her brother, David, manage to escaped to the United States just before Kristallnacht, leaving their parents and little sister in Berlin. Now they are back in their former hometown, haunted by ghosts. Millie works in the office responsible for rooting out Nazis from publishing. Like most of their German-born American colleagues, they suffer from rage at Germany and guilt at their own good fortune. Only Millie?s boss, Major Harry Sutton, seems strangely eager to be fair to the Germans. Living and working in bombed-out Berlin--a latter-day Wild West where spies ply their trade, black markets thrive, and forbidden fraternization is rampant--Millie must come to terms with a past decision made in a moment of crisis and with the enigmatic and sometimes infuriating Major Sutton, who has his own demons from the past."--Page 4 of cover

Living and the lost, a novel