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PASSION OF SHADOWS IBD

ROBERT FRENCH
ROBERT FRENCH
10 / 2020
9780995267107
Anglès

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I looked a moment as she walked away, more delicately made than her sister but no weakling. áThat feeling of regret returned. áThe New YearâÇÖs dinner, the great dark house with its brilliantly lit dining hall, the moldy relatives, the flame-shadowed crests around the fireplace, the stag antlers like gigantic thorns, the beautiful sisters, the ásnowbound estate, all seemed to be passing away. áAltenburg was a painting lost in an attic corner among piles of junk slowly being covered by the breath of ghosts.áA foreign correspondent encounters four intriguing women during World War II. áIn Paris in 1940 he and another American, a concert violinist, have an affair. áThe fall of France is background to their volatile relationship. áThat autumn his news agency transfers him to Berlin, where the sputtering affair will reignite. áHis boss, the only woman head of a press bureau, has him help her gather data on the secret Nazi euthanasia program. áThat takes him to an estate in East Prussia, where two sisters provide him with coded information. áThey are members of a distinguished Junker family that will not survive the war. áIn a couple of visits the correspondent learns about the sisters from servants and from manuscripts left by two dead men. áBy now his boss has been expelled for spying, the United States has entered the war and the violinist is playing for the enemy. áTo avoid internment he escapes to Switzerland with the sistersâÇÖ help. áHe works in Berne, exchanging letters with them. áThey areáinvolved with anti-Nazi plotters. áIn late 1944 one of them is killed in a shootout with the Gestapo. áIn January 1945, aided by the Czech resistance and Polish partisans, the correspondent returns to help the surviving sister ecape from the Soviet Army. áThey become part of the chaotic flight west of German refugees that winter. áBack in Paris after the war he thinks he has seen the last of these intriguing women. áHeâÇÖs wrong.

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