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487 pages ; 24 cm. |
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| Summary |
"On a September day in Manhattan in 1939, twenty-something Caroline Ferriday is consumed by her efforts to secure the perfect boutonniere for an important French diplomat and resisting the romantic advances of a married actor. Meanwhile across the Atlantic, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish Catholic teenager, is nervously anticipating the changes that are sure to come since Germany has declared war on Poland. As tensions rise abroad - and in her personal life - Caroline's interest in aiding the war effort in France grows and she eventually comes to hear about the dire situation at the Ravensbruck all-female concentration camp. At the same time, Kasia's carefree youth is quickly slipping away, only to be replaced by a fervor for the Polish resistance movement. Through Ravensbruck - and the horrific atrocities taking place there told in part by an infamous German surgeon, Herta Oberheuser - the two women's lives will converge in unprecedented ways and a novel of redemption and hope emerges that is breathtaking in scope and depth"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Source |
B&T 5.2016 PARS |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Fiction.
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Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
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Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) -- Fiction.
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Nazis -- Europe -- Fiction.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Fiction.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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FICTION / Historical.
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FICTION / Literary.
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FICTION / Contemporary Women.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Kelly, Martha Hall. Lilac girls New York : Ballantine Books, 2016 9781101883068 (DLC) 2016002612 |
| ISBN |
9781101883075 |
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1101883073 |
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