EAN: 9781496734815

THE NOVELIST FROM BERLIN - V S ALEXANDER KARTON...

An engrossing novel inspired by the mysterious true story of Irmgard Keun  a female novelist
who defied all the rules during Berlin s volcanic post-WWI years  as a young German writer
exiled for her ideas flees her country and her Nazi-supporting husband  fighting for her art 
her life  and her child. 1920s Germany: Though the world has changed in the wake of the Great
War  it is still ruled by men. Even a woman as resourceful and intelligent as Niki Rittenhaus
needs alliances in order to survive. Her marriage to Rickard Länger  a movie producer for
Berlin s Passport Pictures  seems convenient for them both. When Rickard succumbs to increasing
pressure from the Nazis to make propaganda movies  a horrified Niki turns away from her own
film aspirations and instead  begins to write. Niki s first novel  The Berlin Woman  is
published under a pseudonym to great success. But Niki knows she cannot stay anonymous for
long. The Nazis are cementing their power over Germany and over her husband. Though she
succeeds in escaping Rickard  he directs Hitler s Brownshirts to do the unthinkable: kidnap
their daughter. With her books blacklisted  her life in danger  and Europe descending into war
Niki travels to Amsterdam  joins the Dutch Resistance  and then returns to war-torn Berlin
determined to claim freedom for herself and her child  and to write her own story at last.

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