Motherland is the first in a gripping series of contemporary crime novels set in contemporary St Petersburg, featuring the very human and sharp policewoman, Captain Natalya Ivanova. β©β©Student Zena Dahl, the daughter of a Swedish millionaire, has gone missing in St Petersburg (or Piter as the city is
Moederland
β Scribed by Maria Hummel
- Publisher
- Xander Uitgevers
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- Dutch
- Weight
- 306 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog trouwt Liesl met een Duitse weduwnaar en neemt de zorg voor zijn drie kinderen op zich. Haar nieuwe gezin wordt geteisterd door luchtaanvallen en honger. Als een van de kinderen psychische klachten krijgt wordt de liefde van Liesl voor haar gezin op de proef gesteld.
Moederland beschrijft het leven van de gewone gezinnen in nazi-Duitsland. Maria Hummel heeft Moederland gebaseerd op de briefwisseling tussen haar grootouders die zij op zolder vond.
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