The Kommandant's Girl
6 journalers for this copy...
I had read the second book "The Diplomat's Wife" first and enjoyed it enough to track down this book, which didn't disappoint.
From Booklist
Emma had lived in the closed orthodox Jewish community of Krakow, Poland, until she began working at the university library and met Jacob. He sweeps her off her feet, and they marry on the eve of the Nazi invasion. Jacob immediately leaves to join the Jewish underground, and Emma returns to her family, now locked in the Jewish ghetto. Jacob provides false papers, enabling Emma to become Anna Lipowski and move in with his Catholic aunt Krysia, posing as her niece. Krysia works for the underground while maintaining her status as a leader in the arts community. During a dinner party, Emma/Anna is introduced to Nazi Kommadant Richwalder. Smitten, he asks her to come work for him. She agrees, knowing such access will aid the underground, and even becomes intimate with the enemy to gather information. In her moving first novel, Jenoff offers an insightful portrait of people forced into an untenable situation and succeeds in humanizing the unfathomable as well as the heroic. Patty Engelmann
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
From Booklist
Emma had lived in the closed orthodox Jewish community of Krakow, Poland, until she began working at the university library and met Jacob. He sweeps her off her feet, and they marry on the eve of the Nazi invasion. Jacob immediately leaves to join the Jewish underground, and Emma returns to her family, now locked in the Jewish ghetto. Jacob provides false papers, enabling Emma to become Anna Lipowski and move in with his Catholic aunt Krysia, posing as her niece. Krysia works for the underground while maintaining her status as a leader in the arts community. During a dinner party, Emma/Anna is introduced to Nazi Kommadant Richwalder. Smitten, he asks her to come work for him. She agrees, knowing such access will aid the underground, and even becomes intimate with the enemy to gather information. In her moving first novel, Jenoff offers an insightful portrait of people forced into an untenable situation and succeeds in humanizing the unfathomable as well as the heroic. Patty Engelmann
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Taking to the June meetup!
To the finder:
Calgary has an active group of BookCrossers that meet to swap books and discuss book crossing every second Saturday of the month at 11am at the Joshua Tree Cafe on Edmonton Trail. We always love to meet new crossers, so please join us any time you like!
To the finder:
Calgary has an active group of BookCrossers that meet to swap books and discuss book crossing every second Saturday of the month at 11am at the Joshua Tree Cafe on Edmonton Trail. We always love to meet new crossers, so please join us any time you like!
Picked this up at the June BookCrossing meeting among many others.
Unfortunately I didn't get around to reading this.
Taking this to the May bookcrossing meeting to pass onto the next reader.
Picked this up at May's meeting... Once again I came home with way too many books. This one may be sitting on my TBR shelf for awhile.
Are you in the Calgary area and interested in meeting up with other Calgary BookCrossers? Please check out our facebook group, "BookCrossing Calgary" for details on how. Meeting are held on the second Saturday of every month starting at 11am. Location is unknown, please PM me for information. New Crossers are always welcome.
I am overloaded with books and a new baby so returning this as other people are waiting for it. I would like it back at sometime though....
I am overloaded with books and a new baby so returning this as other people are waiting for it. I would like it back at sometime though....
OK - I cam home with WAY too many books. But, my books are organized now by when I got them.
This book kept me reading. Interesting thinking about Jewish underground. Hadn't really heard about it before. Anna/Emma was an interesting character faced with difficult choices. The Kommondant was a very complex character also. There were a couple of things that seemed a bit forced but over all I really enjoyed the book.
Taking this to the May meetup at Cravings.
Apologies for not journaling the book sooner.
This was an interesting story that kept me reading. It describes a small part of the miseries of the Jewish people during the early days of Nazi occupation in Poland.
Taken to the Calgary BC Meetup.
Picked up at the November get together!
Well written historical fiction. It gave an interesting look into a portion of conditions in WWII in Polland. It wasn't quite what I was expecting, but the story pulled me along and kept me reading.
Thanks for the interesting read.
Thanks for the interesting read.
Taken to get together
Pulled this out of the book box while doing some clean up