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The Good American: A Novel Based On True Events
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by Ursula Maria Mandel
Sales Rank: 251956
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List Price: $13.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 249 pages
Published by: Writers Club Press February 2001
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0595160328
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0595160327
Book Dimensions:
9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 14.9 ounces
Book Description
Against the backdrop of a country destroyed by war, two women struggle to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives in the Allied territories of Western Germany in 1948. Their tenacity and resourcefulness to conquer hunger and poverty--perennial guests in their crammed attic room--become a testimony to the strength and resilience of the human spirit. Ruth, a young widow with two small children, Penelope and Eva, lost her husband to suicide after WWII. Hannah, incarcerated by the Russians in Eastern Germany for vagrancy--she had no identification papers, which her alcoholic husband burned in a fit of rage--has had to leave her five-year old daughter, Pauli, behind in Berlin when she escapes from prison camp and makes her way to Ruth's meager attic room. When the Russians threaten to blockade Berlin, foreshadowing a permanent division of Germany, Ruth, who has a passport, decides to get the child. Her journey through enemy territory becomes an unforeseen odyssey of ingenuity and sheer pluck.
Some forty years later, prompted by her own childhood memories of growing up in a world utterly broken, Penelope Karstens writes a novel of her mother's perilous journey, and of Ted Whitman, the American pilot, who fell in love with her the moment she stood before him in her mended dress and her borrowed jewelry, her proud demeanor and her defiant air that seek to mask her abominable poverty. Titled The Good American, the manuscript, unwittingly, becomes a document of redemption for Ted's estranged son, Alex, now himself a pilot who, reluctantly, seeks out the attractive Penelope to carry out one of his father's last wishes.
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The Good American: A Novel Based on True Events is featured by the book information site BookBrowse.com in its Best of the Year 2001 list. All proceeds of books purchased at Amazon through BookBrowse are donated to charity.
Reader Reviews
Ursula Maria Mandel's novel, The Good American, is a story of real people, and how the circumstances surrounding their lives determined the decisions they made. It is also a story of understanding, and ultimately, forgiveness; not only for others, but for oneself. A good read.
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