For all her life, idealistic 20-year-old bookworm Magdalena Arber has been split down the middle: veering wildly between fidelity to indoctrinated Nazi beliefs, and her father''s humanist values. Then comes the summons - the Nazi War Labour Service is conscripting her into a teaching position in East Prussia.

Magda is elated. It''s a release from the cosy cage of childhood, and a chance to form young minds. She enters a lush rural world of forests, lakes, and meadows where order prevails. Yet there are monstrous hands out to shape the whole continuum of earthly creatures. The Gestapo are a lurking darkness.

There is bombing further East, and news of a moving Russian front. Will Alt Schonbek burn as well? Can Magda survive?


Format Häftad Omfång 269 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Honno Ltd Utgivningsdatum 2024-09-05 ISBN 9781916821019