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The scrapbook / Heather Clark.
Van Pelt Library PS3603.L36365 S27 2025
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Clark Scrapbook
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clark, Heather L., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Germany--Fiction.
- Germany.
- United States--Fiction.
- United States.
- Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
- Interpersonal relations.
- College students--Fiction.
- College students.
- World War, 1939-1945--Psychological aspects--Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence--Fiction.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Family secrets--Fiction.
- Family secrets.
- Grandfathers--Fiction.
- Grandfathers.
- Collective memory--Fiction.
- Collective memory.
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 244 pages : map ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pantheon Books, 2025.
- Summary:
- The traumas of the past and the aftershocks of fascism echo and reverberate through the present in this story of a lifechanging seduction. Harvard, 1996. Anna is about to graduate when she falls hard for Christoph, a visiting German student. Captivated by his beauty and intelligence, she follows him to Germany, where charming squares and grand facades belie the nation's recent history and the war's destruction. Christoph condemns his country's actions but remains cryptic about the part his own grandfather played. Anna, meanwhile, cannot forget the photos taken by her American GI grandfather at the end of the war, preserved in a scrapbook only she has seen. As Anna travels back and forth to Germany to deepen her relationship with the elusive Christoph, her perspective is powerfully interrupted by chapters that follow both of their grandfathers during the war. One witnesses the plight of Holocaust victims in the days after liberation and helps capture Hitler's Eagle's Nest, while the other fights for Nazi Germany. Their fragmented stories haunt Anna and her lover two generations later--and may still tear them apart.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Clark, Heather. Scrapbook
- ISBN:
- 9780593701904
- 0593701909
- OCLC:
- 1446297195
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