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The Dutch Wife

By: Ellen Keith
Narrated by: Abby Craden, Eric Martin, Charlie Thurston
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A sweeping story of love and survival during World War II

AMSTERDAM, MAY 1943. As the tulips bloom and the Nazis tighten their grip across the city, the last signs of Dutch resistance are being swept away. Marijke de Graaf and her husband are arrested and deported to different concentration camps in Germany. Marijke is given a terrible choice: to suffer a slow death in the labor camp or—for a chance at survival—to join the camp brothel.

On the other side of the barbed wire, SS officer Karl MŸller arrives at the camp hoping to live up to his father’s expectations of wartime glory. When he encounters the newly arrived Marijke, this meeting changes their lives forever.

Woven into the narrative across space and time is Luciano Wagner’s ordeal in 1977 Buenos Aires, during the heat of the Argentine Dirty War. In his struggle to endure military captivity, he searches for ways to resist from a prison cell he may never leave.

From the Netherlands to Germany to Argentina, The Dutch Wife braids together the stories of three individuals who share a dark secret and are entangled in two of the most oppressive reigns of terror in modern history. This is a novel about the blurred lines between love and lust, abuse and resistance, and right and wrong, as well as the capacity for ordinary people to persevere and do the unthinkable in extraordinary circumstances.

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This is a book is a lot to take in. Other people will say it’s too sexual and is too boring and not realistic. I think it was good. It was a different story we don’t hear about and all the stories fit together after you put the pieces together. I wouldn’t spend another credit on the book or listen to it again, but I work recommend it to a friend.

The book does get a little tedious but I promise it gets better

A different story

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Saddest book I’ve read but I had to finish it. You should give it a try.

Sad but

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While the context in which the story takes place is horrifying and addressees many of the atrocities and complexities that occurred in Nazi camps, the book doesn’t quite get there in developing the characters complexity. I found it hard to identify with either of the main characters in the way in which I think the author was trying to portray them. There is also some graphic content that although important for communicating the atrocities of what happened, I found often out of place.

Reading of female protagonists voice was difficult to understand.

Not the Best

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Different experiences of WW2 and beyond. It was an interesting read, rated R material. Recommend

Different viewpoints

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The book was almost too wrapped up in dirty details of the brothel. I would have liked the story and characters to build a bit more.

needs more storyline, less brothel raunchiness

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