The commandant and the girl
| The commandant and the girl | ||
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| Type | Paperback | |
| Original title | The Commandant's Girl | |
| Page number | 416 pages | |
| publishing company | Mira-Taschenbuchverlag | |
| Edition | 1 | |
| publication | April 10, 2009 | |
| language | German | |
| ISBN | 978-3-89941-609-1 | |
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The Commandant and the Girl (Original title: The Commandant's Girl ) is a paperback novel from 2009 by Pam Jenoff , an expert on the Holocaust issue. With this book she made her debut . The novel has already been nominated for several awards and enjoyed great success in the USA and England .
content
Krakow during World War II : When the city is occupied by the Nazis , the young Jew Emma loses her family : her husband goes into hiding , her family has to go to the ghetto . At first she follows her family voluntarily, but later flees the ghetto with the help of the Jewish resistance movement . With her new identity as Christian Anna, she finds shelter with an acquaintance of her husband's. She becomes the assistant to Georg Richwalder , Deputy Governor General of the Nazis. He falls in love with her and trusts Anna. Emma now has access to classified information and important documents for her underground friends. She soon had her first success when she successfully smuggled permits outside to help the resistance movement. Events come to a head when Anna realizes that she has fallen in love with a man who wants to persecute and kill her people, her husband, her parents ...
style
The book was written very sensitively and sentimentally. Grammatically it is written in first person and present tense .