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Loading... The Girl from Berlinby Richard H. Balson
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Got this as a giveaway book from Goodreads. Read 20 pages of it and I couldn’t finish it. The book didn’t grab my attention and I had a hard time being engaged with the plot. ( ) Gabi Vincenzo has lived on her family’s vineyard in Tuscany for 70 years when a sleazy lawyer, representing the corporation which owns the surrounding land, serves an eviction notice. Her nephew, Tony, asks his good friends Liam Taggert and Catherine Lockhart for help, promising them a free trip and lodging. Gabi provides a translated manuscript to read, without explanation. It is the memoir of Ada Baumgarten, a virtuoso Jewish violinist who lived in Berlin while the Nazis rose to power. Most of the novel is Ada's story, her friendship with fellow violinist Kurt Koenig, whose father forces him to join Hitler Youth, and her narrow escape to Bologna. Sadly, Liam and Catherine are mostly absent in this fifth novel in the series. Wow, I really liked this book. Keep me turning page after page wanting to solve the mystery. I will say the parts of the book set during pre-war in Germany and Italy were my favorite over the current time line. I will look forward to more books from this author. I give this book a very strong 4 stars, really 4. 5 stars. This book is so amazing! I loved it. The story is great but it was a very interactive book for me. Whenever Ada mentioned a musical piece that she was learning I got on Youtube and listened to the music! In the beginning I was stopping to listen to music often but it really made the book come alive for me! I took music lessons as a child and had a lot of exposure to classical music in my childhood. This book really helped me rediscover my love for classical music! I was also impressed with the amount of research that must have went into the writing of this story. Life in prewar Germany was vividly described. Parents wrestling with decisions like " Do I take my family and leave the only country they have ever known or do I risk staying?" I can imagine the weight of those decisions. The wrong choice could cost everything. I highly recommend this book it is a really great read! no reviews | add a review
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HTML: In the newest novel from internationally-bestselling author Ronald. H. Balson, Liam and Catherine come to the aid of an old friend and are drawn into a property dispute in Tuscany that unearths long-buried secrets No library descriptions found. |
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