City of Women

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND ONE OF KIRKUS REVIEWS' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR It is 1943-the height of the Second World War. With the men away at the front Berlin has become a city of women. On the surface Sigrid Schr?der is the model German soldier's wife: She goes to work every day does as much with her rations as she can and dutifully cares for her meddling mother-in-law all the while ignoring the horrific immoralities of the regime. But behind this fa?ade is an entirely different Sigrid a woman of passion who dreams of her former Jewish lover now lost in the chaos of the war. But Sigrid is not the only one with secrets-she soon finds herself caught between what is right and what is wrong and what falls somewhere in the shadows between the two . . . READERS GUIDE INSIDE