The Cigarette Girl

Оглавление

Caroline Woods. The Cigarette Girl

Berni, 1923

Grete, 1931

Berni, 1931

Berni, 1931

South Carolina, 1970

Grete, 1932

Berni, 1932

Grete, 1932

Grete, 1932

Berni, 1932–1933

South Carolina, 1970

Berni, 1935

Berni, 1935

Berni, 1935

Berni, 1935

Anita, 1970

Janeen, 1970

Anita, 1970

Grete, 1939

Anita, 1970

Отрывок из книги

BERLIN, 1931: Sisters raised in a Catholic orphanage, Berni and Grete Metzger are each other’s whole world. That is, until life propels them to opposite sides of seedy, splendid, and violent Weimar Berlin.

As Germany barrels toward the Third Reich and ruin, both sisters eventually come to the same conclusion: they have to leave the country. And they will leave together. But nothing goes as planned as the sisters each make decisions that will change their lives, and their relationship, forever.

.....

A lively tune began: horns, strings, accordion. Konstanz leapt into the middle of the room, landing soundlessly as a cat, and curtsied; she would be Frieda Pommer. She put one hand on her hip and glided her mouth over the words as if she’d heard them all her life:

A skinny man approached me to see if I’d be his bride.

.....