Bohjalian, Chris  (, 1960-) <br/><br/>
Skeletons at the feast  : a novel 
/ by Chris Bohjalian 
 - 1st ed 
 - New York  : Shaye Areheart Books  , c2008. 
 - 372 p.  : map  ; 24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Based on a real-life World War II diary, Bohjalian's (The Double Bind) 12th novel chronicles the last days of the Nazi regime through the eyes of an unlikely threesome. Anna Emmerich, an 18-year-old Prussian aristocrat, along with her mother and younger brother, is making a desperate attempt to journey west across the Reich out of the path of the advancing Red Army. Callum Finnella, Anna's lover and a Scottish POW who worked on the Emmerich family estate, is also traveling with the family. Uri Singer, a German Jew who escaped from a train bound for Auschwitz, is ironically the group's guardian as they travel through Germany. The novel is immensely readable, but the characters--the Jewish escapee, the heroic Allied soldier, and the beautiful Prussian aristocrat--seem more like archetypes than individuals. However, Bohjalian takes a fresh perspective and details the brutal realities of World War II in a novel that for once does not focus entirely on the Allies. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780307394958 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007040800 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>World War, 1939-1945----Fiction<br/>Jews---History---20th century----Fiction<br/>Air pilots----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Germany---History---1933-1945----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3552.O495  / S58 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC BOH