by Emmanuelle Pirotte · FISCHER Taschenbuch · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783596296262
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«Heute leben wir» is the historical novel by Emmanuelle Pirotte, published by FISCHER Taschenbuch in paperback (288 pages, in German).
In December 1944, during the German counter-offensive in the Ardennes, a priest entrusts Renée, a seven-year-old Jewish girl, to two soldiers who are actually infiltrated SS. When one is about to execute her, Mathias, the other, protects her and flees with her; both will experience the worst and the best of humanity at war.
The original novel, published in French in 2015, won the Prix des lycéens de littérature; the German translation is by Grete Osterwald.
For readers of historical fiction and Second World War stories interested in ambiguous characters and moral dilemmas.
