Historical Fiction
The Things We Cherished
2011·288 pages
Two attorneys defend a man accused of WWII war crimes while uncovering a story of love and betrayal spanning decades and continents.
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Two attorneys defend a man accused of WWII war crimes while uncovering a story of love and betrayal spanning decades and continents.
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Pam Jenoff, whose first novel, The Kommandant's Girl , was a Quill Award finalist, a Book Sense pick, and a finalist for the ALA Sophie Brody Award, joins the Doubleday list with a suspenseful story of love and betrayal set during the Holocaust. An ambitious novel that spans decades and continents, The Things We Cherished tells the story of Charlotte Gold and Jack Harrington, two fiercely independent attorneys who find themselves slowly falling for one another while working to defend the brothe...
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Sexual content
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Slow-burn present-day romance; wartime love affair central to past timeline
Violence & gore
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WWII and Holocaust-era peril and deaths; war-crimes context, limited gore
Profanity
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Jewish cultural identity and Holocaust-era faith references
Magic & witchcraft
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No magic or witchcraft present
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content present
Political content
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Nazi war-crimes prosecution; moral questions of wartime collaboration
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Holocaust persecution, wartime betrayal, unthinkable loss and suffering
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