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The Moment
Douglas Kennedy
其他書名
A Novel
出版
Simon and Schuster
, 2011-11-15
主題
Fiction / Thrillers / Espionage
Fiction / Historical / 20th Century / World War II
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Psychological
Fiction / Romance / Historical / General
Fiction / City Life
ISBN
1451608594
9781451608595
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=3s2Qj6Mes90C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
#1 International Bestseller
“
The Moment
is utterly engrossing...Kennedy is astonishing at communicating his characters’ emotional turmoil, the complexity of their situation, and the coldness of the Cold War…Highly recommended for all types of fiction readers.” —
Library Journal
(starred review)
Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced writer in the midst of a rueful middle age. Living a very private life in Maine, in touch only with his daughter and still trying to recover from the end of a long marriage, his solitude is disrupted one wintry morning by the arrival of a box that is postmarked Berlin. The name on the box—Dussmann—unsettles him completely, for it belongs to the woman with whom he had an intense love affair twenty-six years ago in Berlin at a time when the city was cleaved in two and personal and political allegiances were frequently haunted by the deep shadows of the Cold War.
Refusing initially to confront what he might find in that box, Thomas nevertheless is forced to grapple with a past he has never discussed with any living person and in the process relive those months in Berlin when he discovered, for the first and only time in his life, the full, extraordinary force of true love. But Petra Dussmann, the woman to whom he lost his heart, was not just a refugee from a police state, but also someone who lived with an ongoing sorrow that gradually rewrote both their destinies.
A love story of great epic sweep and immense emotional power,
The Moment
explores why and how we fall in love—and the way we project on to others that which our hearts so desperately seek.