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The German Woman (2009)

by Paul Griner(Favorite Author)

3.13 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0547055226 (ISBN13: 9780547055220)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

review 1: I did not enjoy this book. I found it very confusing and I was never sure what was going on. Maybe I needed more background into V-1's and spying during WWII. I thought it was poorly written and didn't leave me feeling anything for the characters. Half the time I didn't even know who Claus/Charles was referring to with Madge, Herbert, and many other people involved in his life. I have read a plethora of books on WWII and this was not one I cared for and wouldn't recommend reading.
review 2: This book kind of has two halves as it follows Kate, a nurse during both of the World Wars. The first half focuses on Kate, an Englishwoman who is married to a German doctor and works in Europe during the First World War and then suffers from the privations in Germany ... morethat follow the end of that war. In the second half of the book Kate returns to England in the early period of the Second World War where she meets Claus, a German/American living in exile in England and working as a double agent. The heart of the story is about nationality and a feeling of alienation, even in your native land, and a story about the role of trust in a relationship and the effect a lack of trust can have. Some of the reviews I've read complain about the lack of connection between the first and second halves of the book, and in some ways it does feel each of them could have stood on their own. However, I think without the background of the first half, the events and relationships in the second half would not have been as poignant. Not a perfectly constructed book, but the themes underlying the story make up for it. less

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