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Book Review of The Women in the Castle: A Novel

The Women in the Castle: A Novel


'The Women in the Castle' is as much about complicity as it is about resistance. It is a story set at the edges of the Holocaust, rather than at its darkest center - in the gray area of everyday lives. It is also a book about the period after the war rather than the war itself...." The story revolves around the lives of three strong women brought together as widows. Two were married to men plotting to assassinate Hitler - and were executed. Their lives merge, separate and still a strong bond exists.