Transgression: A Novel of Love and War - Softcover
In the summer of 1946 a Canadian farmer in Paris, Ontario finds a severed finger lying in his field. It points to a grisly murder that occurred nearby. It also points back in time to a young French woman, sixteen year old Adele Georges, the daughter of a well-respected doctor in war-torn France. Living in German-occupied France and with her beloved father missing in action, Adele meets a young German clerk called Manfred Halder who tries to help her and she makes the mistake of falling in love. They carry on a clandestine affair. Adele is terrified that her secret will be discovered by her brother who is fighting in the French underground and that she'll be exposed as a collaborator. In their youthful naivete Adele and Manfred agree to run away together, but before they can put their plan into action the Allies land on the beaches of Normandy and Manfred is swallowed up in the raging battle that ensues.
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."the vivid prose, harrowing plot and the defiant Adele will keep readers invested in this love story-cum-murder mystery until the very last page." -- Publishers Weekly
."..the vivid prose, harrowing plot and the defiant Adele will keep readers invested in this love story-cum-murder mystery until the very last page."--Publishers Weekly
..".the vivid prose, harrowing plot and the defiant Adele will keep readers invested in this love story-cum-murder mystery until the very last page."--Publishers Weekly
the vivid prose, harrowing plot and the defiant Adele will keep readers invested in this love story cum murder mystery until the very last page. --Publishers Weekly"
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."..the vivid prose, harrowing plot and the defiant Adele will keep readers invested in this love story-cum-murder mystery until the very last page."--Publishers Weekly
..".the vivid prose, harrowing plot and the defiant Adele will keep readers invested in this love story-cum-murder mystery until the very last page."--Publishers Weekly
the vivid prose, harrowing plot and the defiant Adele will keep readers invested in this love story cum murder mystery until the very last page. --Publishers Weekly"
How can love survive a brutal time?
In 1946 in North America, a child makes a grisly find in a deserted field--a discovery that opens a shuttered window on a secret dating back to the beginning of the turbulent decade.
In 1941 in occupied France, Adele Georges's fruitless attempts to learn the whereabouts of her father, captured by the Nazis, lead her to a lonely young German soldier far from home. A spark between them becomes a fire--and a dangerous love affair blooms across enemy lines, dooming Adele to a grim postwar existence as a despised outcast, one of the infamous "horizontal collaborators." Ostracized, tortured, tormented, she chooses a desperate escape, accompanying a war-damaged yet optimistic Allied soldier across an ocean to a new land. But there is no refuge from the past, as Adele's broken heart and shameful secret drive her deeper into despair...and toward a shocking outcome.
Part mystery and part love story--an unforgettable and beautifully written novel of secrets, passions, and consequences--Transgression is an exceptional work of power and strange beauty.
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- PublisherCormorant Books
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1770863389
- ISBN 13 9781770863385
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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