My Thoughts:
I continue to be impressed by Mandy Robotham’s unique story ideas. Her novels often transport me to a new and somewhat unexamined event or location. Set in post WWII Berlin, The Girl Behind the Wall is an exceptional telling of two sisters, each of them trapped on opposing sides of the hastily erected Berlin Wall. Before reading this novel, I knew little about the history of the wall itself, and was shocked to learn how life changed so dramatically for Berliner’s overnight. The author has done a great service to those who experienced the reality of such a wall as their voices and life stories can now, at least partially, be imagined and heard by the world.
Excerpt from Amazon:
A city divided.
When the Berlin Wall goes up, Karin is on the wrong side of the city. Overnight, she’s trapped under Soviet rule in unforgiving East Berlin and separated from her twin sister, Jutta.
Two sisters torn apart.
Karin and Jutta lead parallel lives for years, cut off by the Wall. But Karin finds one reason to keep going: Otto, the man who gives her hope, even amidst the brutal East German regime.
One impossible choice…
When Jutta finds a hidden way through the wall, the twins are reunited. But the Stasi have eyes everywhere, and soon Karin is faced with a terrible decision: to flee to the West and be with her sister, or sacrifice it all to follow her heart?
From the USA Today and internationally bestselling WWII novelist of The German Midwife, The Secret Messenger and The Berlin Girl comes a story set at the dawn of the Cold War in Berlin.
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