The things we cannot say / Kelly Rimmer.
In 1942, Europe remains in the relentless grip of war. Just beyond the tents of the Russian refugee camp she calls home, a young woman speaks her wedding vows. It's a decision that will alter her destiny... and it's a lie that will remain buried until the next century. Since she was nine years old, Alina Dziak knew she would marry her best friend, Tomasz. Now fifteen and engaged, Alina is unconcerned by reports of Nazi soldiers at the Polish border, believing her neighbors that they pose no real threat, and dreams instead of the day Tomasz returns from college in Warsaw so they can be married. But little by little, injustice by brutal injustice, the Nazi occupation takes hold, and Alina's tiny rural village, its families, are divided by fear and hate. Then, as the fabric of their lives is slowly picked apart, Tomasz disappears. Where Alina used to measure time between visits from her beloved, now she measures the spaces between hope and despair, waiting for word from Tomasz and avoiding the attentions of the soldiers who patrol her parents' farm. But for now, even deafening silence is preferable to grief."-- Page 4 of cover.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781525823565
- ISBN: 1525823566
- Physical Description: 439 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Graydon House, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
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General Note: | Includes discussion questions. Includes special preview of The German Wife ©2022. |
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Subject: | World War, 1939-1945 > Poland > Fiction. Family secrets > Fiction. Grandmothers > Fiction. Families > Fiction. |
Genre: | Love stories. Historical fiction. Romance fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Lehigh Valley Library System.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Allentown Public Library | RIMMER, KELLY (Text) | 34455007070895 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |