by Katharina Fuchs · Droemer · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783426306857
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Two strong women - two German destinies. And the story of the KaDeWe department store in Berlin in a touchingly authentic historical novel. Germany 1914: Charlotte grows up on her powerful father's archaic estate in Saxony. The world seems to be at her feet when her aunt and her Jewish husband introduce her to the Leipzig ball season. She meets her first love. But the beginning of the First World War destroys her plans. And her life changes forever. At the same time, Anna succeeds, between the waterways of the Spreewald, where renunciation and hard work sharpen ingenuity, in repeatedly outwitting fate. But she does not recognize the deep love of her best friend before he leaves for the Western Front. On an ice-cold day in February 1919, the nineteen-year-old seamstress boards the train to Berlin alone. In the narrow backyards of Wedding, hunger and poverty clash with the unbridled thirst for life of the dawning twenties. And in the KaDeWe department store, saleswomen are wanted. Anna and Charlotte will not meet until 1953 in Berlin. Behind them lie two world wars and their German destiny. It is the marriage of their children that unites the two unequal women, and a deep connection through the same pain that they had never before confided in another human being. Katharina Fuchs tells in her historical novel not only a piece of German history from the perspective of women, but the story of her own grandmothers. The fate of Charlotte's and Anna's daughters, who in the 50s and 60s fought against narrow-mindedness and traditional roles for their dreams, is described by Katharina Fuchs in »Neuleben«.
