{"product_id":"the-living-and-the-lost-paperback","title":"The Living and the Lost - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEllen Feldman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eParis Never Leaves You, \u003c\/i\u003e Ellen Feldman's \u003ci\u003eThe Living and the Lost\u003c\/i\u003e is a gripping story of a young German Jewish woman who returns to Allied Occupied Berlin from America to face the past and unexpected future\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A deeply satisfying and truly adult novel.\" --\u003cb\u003eMargot Livesey, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Flight of Gemma Hardy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMillie (Meike) Mosbach and her brother David, manage to escape to the States just before Kristallnacht, leaving their parents and little sister in Berlin. Millie attends Bryn Mawr on a special scholarship for non-Aryan German girls and graduates to a magazine job in Philadelphia. David enlists in the army and is eventually posted to the top-secret Camp Ritchie in Maryland, which trains German-speaking men for intelligence work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow they are both back in their former hometown, haunted by ghosts and hoping against hope to find their family. Millie, works in the office responsible for rooting out the most dedicated Nazis from publishing; she is consumed with rage at her former country and its citizens, though she is finding it more difficult to hate in proximity. David works trying to help displaced persons build new lives, while hiding his more radical nighttime activities from his sister. Like most of their German-born American colleagues, they suffer from conflicts of rage and guilt at their own good fortune, except for Millie's boss, Major Harry Sutton, who seems much too eager to be fair to the Germans. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLiving and working in bombed-out Berlin, a latter day Wild West where drunken soldiers brawl; the desperate prey on the unsuspecting; spies ply their trade; werewolves, as unrepentant Nazis were called, scheme to rise again; black markets thrive, and forbidden fraternization is rampant, Millie must come to terms with a decision she made as a girl in a moment of crisis, and with the enigmatic sometimes infuriating Major Sutton who is mysteriously understanding of her demons. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAtmospheric and page-turning, \u003ci\u003eThe Living and the Lost \u003c\/i\u003eis a story of love, survival, and forgiveness of others and of self.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 8.11 x 5.35 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 07, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47382588719282,"sku":"9781250780829","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/d5b778c21fd1ffa3584c14e9e64847ed.webp?v=1777838873","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-living-and-the-lost-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}