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The Plum Tree

By: Ellen Marie Wiseman
Narrated by: Madeleine Lambert
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Summary

"Bloom where you're planted," is the advice Christine Bolz receives from her beloved Oma. But 17-year-old domestic Christine knows there is a whole world waiting beyond her small German village. It's a world she's begun to glimpse through music, books - and through Isaac Bauerman, the cultured son of the wealthy Jewish family she works for.

Yet the future she and Isaac dream of sharing faces greater challenges than their difference in stations. In the fall of 1938, Germany is changing rapidly under Hitler's regime. Anti-Jewish posters are everywhere, dissenting talk is silenced, and a new law forbids Christine from returning to her job - and from having any relationship with Isaac. In the months and years that follow, Christine will confront the Gestapo's wrath and the horrors of Dachau, desperate to be with the man she loves, to survive - and finally, to speak out.

Set against the backdrop of the German homefront, this is an unforgettable novel of courage and resolve, of the inhumanity of war, and the heartbreak and hope left in its wake.
©2013 Ellen Marie Wiseman (P)2013 Tantor
Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Jewish Heartfelt War Holocaust
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"The Holocaust was a horrendous time in world history, and Wiseman has added a personal touch on this era." ( VOYA)

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Storyline excellent, great characters, but sadly let down by a narrator who felt she needs to shout the story at you some of the time.

Why use an American narrator for a novel set in Germany?

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