Fiction
In reply to the discussion: What Fiction are you reading this week, April 12, 2020? [View all]PA Democrat
(13,409 posts)Set in a small town in Germany during World War II, the book's main character is a former friar who is struggling to atone for a past failing which is revealed gradually through the course of the book. He enters into an arranged marriage with desperate widow to help her raise her children. As part of his search for redemption, he joins a resistance movement called the Red Orchestra and acts as a messenger.
At the end of the book the author explains that the main character was based upon her husband's grandfather who was indeed part of a resistance movement within Nazi Germany. She then goes on to state that the book is a cautionary tale about how there are very dangerous parallels between events in the US today and the spread of the poison that enabled the Nazi atrocities. Her remarks had me in tears because it feels as though we are very much poised right now on the ragged edge of night. She wrote:
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