Thursday, September 20, 2007

The Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff



This book was published by Mira Books, an imprint of Harlequin. So that tells you a lot about the book! It's a pretty good historical romance, but not one that I'll be recommending to many people.

Emma is a Jewish girl newly married to Jacob, a resistance fighter, during the Holocaust. They live in Krakow, Poland, and when Jacob goes underground, Emma disappears into the ghetto. She is bravely rescued from the ghetto under cover of darkness and goes to live with Jacob's aunt. With new papers, she is now a visiting Gentile, and soon attracts the attention of Kommandant Richwalder, a Nazi. She becomes his personal assistant and much more than that. She is attracted to him, despite his being a German Nazi. And as she becomes more and more involved with the resistance, she uses her connection with him to gain more information about the death camps and ghettos. But does she make a good choice? What will happen with her relationship with the German? What if Jacob finds out?

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