Book Mole: The Life of Objects

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Mon, 07/22/2013 - 12:00am
Larry Bowlden reviews Susanna Moore's novel The Life of Objects, about coming of age in WW2 Europe

Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Susanna Moore's novel The Life of Objects. It's about WWII seen through the eyes of a poor young Irish woman who is invited to the home of a wealthy German family to make lace. It begins in 1938. The family (though previously politically influential) retreats from Nazi politics, and in fact, retreats to a country estate where most of the book takes place. Having refused a foreign ambassador position under the Nazi's, the male landowner is under increasing scrutiny. Larry finds it to be a wonderful novel about how German resisters lived through the war and how they were treated as Russian and American forces entered Germany. A sad and lovely story about the loyalty she comes to feel for this family and their attempts to protect her in what becomes a hostile country.

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