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008			120127s2008 nyub 000 1 eng
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050	0	0	_aPS3552.O495 _bS58 2008
082	0	0	_aFIC BOH
100	1		_aBohjalian, Chris _d(, 1960-)
245	1	0	_aSkeletons at the feast _b: a novel _c/ by Chris Bohjalian
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew York _b: Shaye Areheart Books _c, c2008.
300			_a372 p. _b: map _c; 24 cm.
520			_aBased 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.
650		4	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _v--Fiction
650			_aJews _x-History _y-20th century _v--Fiction
650			_aAir pilots _v--Fiction
651			_aGermany _x-History _y-1933-1945 _v--Fiction
942			_cMO
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