- Title:
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Gerta
- Written by:
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Katerina Tucková
- Read by:
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Liza Seneca
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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13
- Duration:
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16 hours 33 minutes
- Published:
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January 05 2021
- Available Date:
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January 05 2021
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781713546634
- Genres:
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Fiction; Historical Fiction; Literary Fiction; War Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Brilliance audio
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Bestselling author
Award winning author
The award-winning novel about the fate of one woman and the pursuit of forgiveness in a divided postwar world.
THEIR WAR ENDED. HERS BEGAN.
1945. Allied forces liberate Nazi-occupied Brno, Moravia. For Gerta Schnirch, daughter of a Czech mother and a German father aligned with Hitler, it’s not deliverance; it’s a sentence. She has been branded an enemy of the state. Caught in the changing tides of a war that shattered her family – and her innocence – Gerta must obey the official order: she, along with all ethnic Germans, is to be expelled from Czechoslovakia. With nothing but the clothes on her back and an infant daughter, she’s herded among thousands, driven from the only home she’s ever known. But the injustice only makes Gerta stronger, more empowered, and more resolved to seek justice. Her journey is a relentless quest for a seemingly impossible forgiveness. And one day, she will return.
Spanning decades and generations, Katerina Tucková’s breathtaking novel illuminates a long-neglected episode in Czech history. One of exclusion and prejudice, of collective shame versus personal guilt, all through the eyes of a charismatic woman whose courage will affect all the lives she’s touched. Especially that of the daughter she loved, fought for, shielded, and would come to inspire.
'[Gerta] masterfully fulfills one of the potential and important functions of literature. It is a means of self-reflection for a particular community, which is the Czech nation in this case.'
Pavel Janoušek