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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Publication date
February 1, 2003
Pages
335
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780375414367
ISBN-10
0375414363
Dimensions
1.25 by 6 by 8.75 in.
Weight
1.20 lbs.
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Original list price
$24.00
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Lucia Mnller-Rossi, a respected, ninety-year-old antiques dealer in Zurich, finds her reputation on the line when Sarah Freeman discovers a table in her shop that Sarah and her husband had owned before the war, in a novel based on a real-life historical figure, a woman who made a fortune dealing in stolen art in wartime Berlin. 20,000 first printing.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: From the author of Taking Lives: a riveting new novel, inspired by a true story from secret criminal files, about a woman who made her fortune trafficking stolen art in wartime Berlinâand the fearsome price other people paid for her crimes.
Lucia Müller-Rossi is the grandest of Zurich antique dealers, still flourishing and still respect-able in her nineties. Her past is unknown, or conveniently ignored, until the day Sarah Freeman looks into her shop window and sees a delicate inlaid table that she and her husband once owned before the war. It is a âpiece from Berlin,â and because of it, decades of lies and silence are about to end.
With the skills of a master storyteller and the insights of a historian, Michael Pye brings to life the devastating legacy that shadows the Holocaust. The Pieces from Berlin is the graphic story of survivors finding the courage to face a buried past, as Luciaâs son, Nicholas, patches his memories of wartime Berlin into a true picture of his motherâs life and crimes, and Sarah Freeman tries to exorcise her ghosts by involving an Englishman who has his own wartime scars.
Their intensely moving stories cast brilliant light on the terrible choices people must make in the very worst of timesâand the human toll they exact through the generations.
Lucia Müller-Rossi is the grandest of Zurich antique dealers, still flourishing and still respect-able in her nineties. Her past is unknown, or conveniently ignored, until the day Sarah Freeman looks into her shop window and sees a delicate inlaid table that she and her husband once owned before the war. It is a âpiece from Berlin,â and because of it, decades of lies and silence are about to end.
With the skills of a master storyteller and the insights of a historian, Michael Pye brings to life the devastating legacy that shadows the Holocaust. The Pieces from Berlin is the graphic story of survivors finding the courage to face a buried past, as Luciaâs son, Nicholas, patches his memories of wartime Berlin into a true picture of his motherâs life and crimes, and Sarah Freeman tries to exorcise her ghosts by involving an Englishman who has his own wartime scars.
Their intensely moving stories cast brilliant light on the terrible choices people must make in the very worst of timesâand the human toll they exact through the generations.
Editions
Hardcover
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from Alfred a Knopf Inc (February 1, 2003)
9780375414367 | details & prices | 335 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.20 lbs | List price $24.00
About: Lucia Mnller-Rossi, a respected, ninety-year-old antiques dealer in Zurich, finds her reputation on the line when Sarah Freeman discovers a table in her shop that Sarah and her husband had owned before the war, in a novel based on a real-life historical figure, a woman who made a fortune dealing in stolen art in wartime Berlin.
About: Lucia Mnller-Rossi, a respected, ninety-year-old antiques dealer in Zurich, finds her reputation on the line when Sarah Freeman discovers a table in her shop that Sarah and her husband had owned before the war, in a novel based on a real-life historical figure, a woman who made a fortune dealing in stolen art in wartime Berlin.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Vintage Books (February 1, 2004)
9780375714160 | details & prices | 352 pages | 5.25 × 8.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.56 lbs | List price $15.00
About: Lucia Müller-Rossi, a respected, ninety-year-old antiques dealer in Zurich, finds her reputation on the line when Sarah Freeman discovers a table in her shop that Sarah and her husband had owned before the war, in a novel based on a real-life historical figure, a woman who made a fortune dealing in stolen art in wartime Berlin.
About: Lucia Müller-Rossi, a respected, ninety-year-old antiques dealer in Zurich, finds her reputation on the line when Sarah Freeman discovers a table in her shop that Sarah and her husband had owned before the war, in a novel based on a real-life historical figure, a woman who made a fortune dealing in stolen art in wartime Berlin.
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