{"product_id":"return-to-berlin","title":"Return To Berlin","description":"‘Masterful, magnificent. A passionate story of survival. This story will stay with me for a long time’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeather Morris, bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz \u003c\/i\u003eon\u003ci\u003e A Bookshop in Paris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA young German Jewish woman returns to Allied Occupied Berlin from America to face the past and unexpected future.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e Young Meike ‘Millie’ Mosbach and her brother David escape Berlin just before the horror of Kristallnacht, leaving their parents and little sister to follow them to America. But their family never arrives.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e After the war they return to a shattered city, hoping against hope to find their family. Postwar Berlin is a wild west where drunken soldiers brawl, spies ply their trade and ‘werewolves’ – unrepentant Nazis – scheme to rise again.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Consumed with rage at her former country, Millie’s job rooting out Nazis from publishing seems the perfect outlet. But her anger begins to thaw as she is faced with the reality of what the war has done to everyone, guilty at their own good fortune. Everyone except for Millie’s boss, Major Harry Sutton, who seems too eager to be fair to the Germans and far too perceptive about Millie.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the rubble of postwar Berlin, Millie is forced to confront a devastating secret and find the courage to embrace love – and a new beginning. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAtmospheric and page-turning, \u003ci\u003eReturn to Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of love, survival, and forgiveness of others and of self.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A deeply satisfying and truly adult novel' \u003c\/b\u003eMargot Livesey, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Flight of Gemma Hardy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A gorgeous, shattering story that could not be more timely about the dark damage of hatred and the persistence of love' \u003c\/b\u003eCaroline Leavitt, author of \u003ci\u003eIs This Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57314724807038,"sku":"NW9781398508057","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781398508057.jpg?v=1778714187","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/return-to-berlin","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}