All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days (eBook)

The True Story of the Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler

Rebecca Donner (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
576 Seiten
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-78689-220-1 (ISBN)

Infos

SELECTED AS A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKBorn and raised in America, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six and living in Germany when she witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. She began holding secret meetings in her apartment, forming a small band of political activists set on helping Jews escape, denouncing Hitler and calling for revolution. When the Second World War began, she became a spy, couriering top-secret intelligence to the Allies.In this astonishing work of non-fiction, Harnack’s great-great-niece Rebecca Donner draws on extensive archival research, fusing elements of biography, political thriller and scholarly detective story to tell a powerful, epic tale of an enigmatic woman nearly erased by history.

Autor

Rebecca Donner is the New York Times bestselling author of three critically acclaimed books. She is a 2022 Guggenheim fellow and the recipient of numerous literary awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, and the Chautauqua Prize. Donner was inspired to write All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days after her grandmother gave her a bundle of Mildred’s letters. @RRRDonner | rebeccadonner.com

Rezensionen

Literate fiction dealing with the inner lives of children presents a challenge for both writer and reader. But Donner does her young characters the service of taking them seriously, investing them with self-awareness and the capacity for complex motivations, while writing with an asperity that keeps her clear of the maudlin and the trite

Praise for Sunset Terrace: Donner's writing is nothing short of gorgeous, alive to the intricate hostilities between girls and the tangled alliances among women. The compassion she summons for the desperately sad children in this book is nearly crushing in its intensity. This is a remarkable debut

A family puts down roots in a hardscrabble Southern California apartment complex in this colourful, wonderfully realised first novel

A migratory mother flirts with stability in first-timer Donner's strongly realised novel of place

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.8.2021
• Verlagsort: Edinburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Ancestry • exciting • Fascism • Personal • R4 • strong female lead • Thriller • Women in History • WWII
• ISBN-10: 1-78689-220-0 / 1786892200
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78689-220-1 / 9781786892201