![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We learn that Marianne has rescued them both: Martin from a home where he was sent to be re-educated after his father, Connie, was killed by the Nazis, and Benita from virtual sex-slavery in Russian-occupied Berlin. Seven years later, Marianne returns to Burg Lingenfels with Benita and Benita’s son, Martin. ![]() They agree that it is their duty to resist Hitler. Later in the evening, she finds Connie, her husband, Albrecht, and several other men discussing the events of Kristallnacht. She welcomes her close friend Connie Fledermann and is introduced to his beautiful new wife, Benita. At her husband’s ancestral castle of Burg Lingenfels, Marianne von Lingenfels is throwing a party. The novel opens with a prologue set in 1938. A New York Times bestseller, critics hailed The Women in the Castle as a novel that “makes sincere, evocative use of family history to explore complicity and the long arc of individual responses to a mass crime” ( Kirkus Reviews). Set during the Second World War, American author Jessica Shattuck’s historical novel The Women in the Castle (2017) follows three women-the widows of men killed in a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler-as they cope with the devastation of their country and the collective guilt of the German people. ![]()
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