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The German Woman: A Novel by [Paul Griner]

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“A gritty, unsentimental story of love and loyalty played out across Europe during the two World Wars . . . Fans of Graham Greene or Alan Furst will want to take a look.” —Publishers Weekly

This riveting novel introduces us to Kate Zweig, the beautiful English widow of a German surgeon, and Claus Murphy, an exiled American with German roots—two lovers with complicated loyalties. In 1918, Kate and her husband were taken for spies by Russian soldiers and forced to flee their field hospital on the eastern front, barely escaping with their lives. Years later, in London during the Nazis’ V-1 reign of terror, Claus spends his days making propaganda films, and his nights as a British spy worn down by the war and his own numerous secrets.

When Claus meets Kate, he finds himself drawn to her, even after evidence surfaces that she might not be exactly who she seems. As the war hurtles to a violent end, Claus must decide where his own loyalties lie, whether he can make a difference in the war, and what might be gained by taking a leap of faith with Kate.

The interwoven strands of Paul Griner’s plot offer up “[an] unsentimental and realistic look at the fallout of war”—both physical and emotional (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). Louisville’s Courier-Journal called The German Woman “Griner’s masterpiece” and praised the novelist as someone “who can take you absolutely anywhere, never wastes a sentence, and, most impressive of all, understands the beating heart of a woman.”

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Publication date

June 9, 2010
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Paul Griner is the author of the acclaimed novel Collectors and the story collection Follow Me, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick. He is director of the creative writing program at the University of Louisville.

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A gritty, unsentimental story of love and loyalty played out across Europe during the two world wars." (Publishers Weekly )

"Griner's masterpiece...[He is] a novelist who can take you absolutely anywhere, never wastes a sentence, and, most impressive of all, understands the beating heart of a woman." (Louisville Courier-Journal ) --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt hardcover, 2009Previous ISBN 978-0-547-05522-0 --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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WWII atrocities are dramatized through the relationship between the English widow of a German surgeon and an exiled American with German roots. The lovers' terror, loyalties, and entanglements take place amid the appalling history that is woven into their daily lives. Anne Flosnik's crisp enunciation serves as a striking counterpoint to vivid descriptions of Nazi concentration camps and wartime battlefields. Her portrayals of Kate, the widow, and other characters are so realistic that they could be mistaken for the work of a full cast. Michael Page's bravery as Charles, the American, is audible through his stoic narration of the brutality he witnesses while spying for the British. The struggle for survival and the tension between collaboration and loyalty are the themes of this novel, which is reminiscent of the work of Graham Greene. A.W. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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For a novel with two main characters, logic dictates that each performer should take one of the leading roles to create a mini-cast production, but this audio proceeds the old-fashioned way, in tag-team style. Anne Flosnik, performing the first section set primarily in Germany after the Great War, has a brittle voice that takes some getting used to. Her range is dwarfed by the talented Michael Page, who picks up the story in London in 1944. Though narrating in a slightly British accent, Page captures the American cadences and personality of Charles/Claus with all his yearnings and ambivalence, and his Kate, the British-born woman at the heart of the first section, outshines Flosnik's interpretation. Despite the unevenness of the performances, Page's galvanizing narrative makes this well-researched historical novel worth sticking with. A Houghton Mifflin Harcourt hardcover (Reviews, Apr. 27). (June)
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B003ZSISYY
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mariner Books; Reprint edition (June 9, 2010)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 9, 2010
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1197 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 332 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #1,462,987 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #221 in Historical World War I Fiction
- #736 in World War I Historical Fiction (Books)
- #1,443 in Historical European Fiction

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Paul Griner is the author of the recently published novel The Book of Otto and Liam, longlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.

Earlier work includes the novels Collectors, The German Woman, and Second Life, and the story collections Follow Me (a Barnes and Nobel Discover Great New Writers pick) and Hurry Please, I Want to Know (winner of the 2016 Kentucky Literary Award). His work has been published in Playboy, Ploughshares, One Story, Zoetrope, Narrative, Tin House, Bomb, and, most recently, on Oprah Daily.

His work has been translated into half a dozen languages.

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Cynthia

Loyalties?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 17, 2009

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As an American I always find what the British went through in World War II a bit fantastical. This book reminded me of that. In fact the best part of the book was making those years in Britain come alive. There was constant terror, anticipation of loss...both loss of your own life or your loved ones, the importance of food, of a warm bath. And worst of all, perhaps, not knowing who to trust. Who was loyal to the UK and who wasn't? Even doubting your own motives at times. Trying to do the best thing, act on your higher impulses as things seemed or WERE falling down around you. There were the odd kindnesses, great and small, from strangers, scenes of beauty and hope intermixed with the dismal and hopeless. The swings of emotion alone would be debilitating. Yet in order to survive you had to act. Griner brings together characters that are, perhaps even more than the majority of World War II Brits, isolated and alone, countryless. Just when I had the sensation I was getting a clear sense of who Kate Zweig and Claus Murphy were and what their motivations were the ground would shift again. In the end they seemed only to be staving off hopelessness, barely staying ahead of it. When beauty made an appearance it only served to make the day to day hardships more stark; blood, death, privations, hunger, isolation and the seduction of letting go of hope.

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CONTRIVED AND CLOUDED

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 18, 2010

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One of the subject has been covered, and better many times starting with Eye of the Needle. The need to deceive Germany on the location of D-Day. The author uses brutality and counter-counter spy to hype the intensity. One more description of a buzz bomb was redundant.

Our author tries too hard and as a consequence the book is a faux espionage novel.

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Ken B.

Four Stars

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I was engaged in the story from beginning to end.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 26, 2011

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I still haven't been able to finish this book. It just doesn't hold my interest, as hard as I have tried. The story moves too slowly and action is difficult to follow.

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Thomas B Byers

READ THIS!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 3, 2023

It's been awhile since I read this novel, but I thought it was terrific--does a great deal to portray the chaos (and sometimes horror) of the first half of the 20th-century in Europe. It also has a powerful ending, both ironic and poignant. Griner is an extremely talented writer with a dark imagination, and this book in particular deserves much more attention.

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Bonnie Beckett

Modern western a winner

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This modern western was a treat to read.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 4, 2015

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 25, 2023

Difficult to read…so much wandering. Even the central characters were sad, boring, difficult to like
The Claus character is completely impossible to relate to. The story drags with so called opinions about the war, the Germans, the politics. Oh. I struggled until page 103 then threw it in the garbage

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