Three German resistance widows forge a fragile family in a ruined Bavarian castle after WWII, confronting secrets, guilt, and survival.
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Three German resistance widows forge a fragile family in a ruined Bavarian castle after WWII, confronting secrets, guilt, and survival.
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Three women, haunted by the past and the secrets they hold Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined--an affecting, shocking, and ultimately redemptive novel from the author of the New York Times Notable Book The Hazards of Good Breeding. Amid the ashes of Nazi Germany's defeat, Marianne von Lingenfels returns to the once-grand castle ...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Wartime sexual assault; some romantic entanglements and dark passions
Violence & gore
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Executions, war deaths, occupation violence; not highly graphic
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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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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Central focus on Nazism, resistance, complicity, and postwar guilt
Self-harm / suicide
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No evidence found in available sources
Abuse & suffering
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Sexual assault by soldiers; Nazi child reeducation; camps; wartime cruelty
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