A City of Broken Glass
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- 6,99 €
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- 6,99 €
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In 1938, after four years in hiding in Switzerland, journalist Hannah Vogel believes the coast is clear and takes the opportunity for a holiday with her 13-year-old son Anton. Traveling again under the name of Adelheid Zinsli, they arrive in Poland to cover the St. Martin festival, only to learn of the deportation of 12,000 Polish Jews from Germany. Hannah drops everything to get the story on the refugees, soon discovering that the wife of a friend of among them.
Running headlong into danger, she agrees to help find the woman's missing daughter—a promise which leads her straight into the arms of the SS, as well as those of Lars Lang, the lover she had presumed dead two years before. Injured, she and Anton are trapped in Berlin with Lars days before Kristallnacht—the Night of Broken Glass— where she is torn between ensuring their escape, and keeping her promise. But she can't turn her back on this one little girl, even if it plunges her and her family into danger.
"In this fourth novel in a superbly written historical mystery series, Rebecca Cantrell once again tells a fast-paced story about the indomitable Hannah Vogel, a journalist, mother and fervent anti-Nazi Berliner…Set against the haunting backdrop of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, the novel holds many surprises for Vogel, who becomes trapped in Berlin with Anton and a former lover. Cantrell drops you into 1930s Berlin, and the fear and chaos swirl around you." — USA Today
"Cantrell's fourth historical featuring journalist Hannah Vogel (after A Game of Lies) is compulsively readable. A palpable sense of dread builds, as we know that Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom of November 1938, is imminent. This award-winning series succeeds at weaving a very personal story into a well-researched historical survey. In an increasingly crowded genre period, Cantrell's series stands tall." — Library Journal (starred)
"With compelling characters and a narrative which makes it hard to put down, A City of Broken Glass combines romantic thriller with historical tragedy." — Historical Novel Society
"The opening of Cantrell's gripping fourth novel featuring journalist Hannah Vogel (after 2011's A Game of Lies) finds Vogel and her 13-yearold son, Anton, in 1938 Poland…Cantrell poignantly conveys the plight of Nazi Germany's Jews through the story of one child." — Publishers Weekly
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The opening of Cantrell's gripping fourth novel featuring journalist Hannah Vogel (after 2011's A Game of Lies) finds Vogel and her 13-year-old son, Anton, in 1938 Poland, where her newspaper has sent her to do a light feature piece on the St. Martin's Day festival held every November 11 in Poznan. Having learned from the morning newspapers that Germany is deporting more than 12,000 Polish Jews across the border, Hannah decides to travel to a nearby town to investigate. There in a stable full of refugees Hannah encounters a pregnant woman she knows, Miriam Keller, who tells Hannah she has left her two-year-old daughter, Ruth, behind in Berlin. The reporter risks her life and that of her son's in a heroic effort to locate Ruth. While the characterizations and period detail don't match those of a first-rank author in the subgenre like Alan Furst, Cantrell poignantly conveys the plight of Nazi Germany's Jews through the story of one child.
