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Soon to be a major motion picture starring Academy Award winner Christopher Plummer, Lily James, and Jai Courtney. The Kaiser's Last Kiss is a "crisp, adroit, and subtle tale of great personal power" (The New York Times), which follows the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm, the young Nazi officer assigned to guard him, and the Jewish maid who unwittingly comes between them. It is 1940 and the exiled monarch Kaiser Wilhelm is living in his Dutch chateau, Huis Doorn. The old German king spends his days chopping logs and musing on what might have been. When the Nazis invade Holland, the Kaiser's staff is replaced by SS guards, led by young and recently commissioned SS officer Martin Krebbs, and an unlikely relationship develops between the king and his keeper. While they agree on the rightfulness of German expansion and on holding the nation's Jewish population accountable for all ills, they disagree on the solutions. But when Krebbs becomes attracted to Akki, a Jewish maid in the house, he begins to question his belief in Nazism. As the threads of history conspire with the recklessness of the heart, The Kaiser, Untersturmfuhrer Krebbs, and the mysterious Akki find themselves increasingly conflicted and gravely at risk...
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Review:
"Those who avail themselves of The Kaiser's Last Kiss will relish its crisp, adroit and subtle tale of great personal power. . . . [with] sufficient ambitions and conflicts to carry [this] masterly short novel to a satisfying end. History is a tease and a provocation to good storytelling and mythmaking, and The Kaiser's Last Kiss, with both its historicities and inventions, celebrates that fact."--Thomas Keneally "New York Times Book Review "
"Alan Judd brilliantly illuminates the tension that can rack those who must choose between conflicting loyalties, not to mention the anguish that comes with the burden of guarding the most vital of secrets."--James Naughtie "The Wall Street Journal "
About the Author:
"Alan Judd brilliantly illuminates the tension that can rack those who must choose between conflicting loyalties, not to mention the anguish that comes with the burden of guarding the most vital of secrets."--James Naughtie "The Wall Street Journal "
Alan Judd is the author of eleven novels and two biographies. He previously served as a soldier in the British army and as a diplomat in the Foreign Office. Judd is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has won numerous awards including the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Heinemann Award. He currently writes for The Spectator and The Daily Telegraph. He lives in Sussex with his family.
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- PublisherISIS Large Print Books
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 075317362X
- ISBN 13 9780753173626
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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