Susan Dworkin è un'autrice che scrive per tutti, affrontando diversi generi con narrazioni avvincenti. Il suo lavoro comprende drammi storici, come la co-autoria del bestseller The Nazi Officer's Wife, che approfondisce temi di amore, terrore e coraggio nella Germania di Hitler. Esplora anche la fantascienza, come dimostra il suo romanzo The Commons, ambientato in un futuro in cui l'umanità combatte la fame. L'acuta intuizione di Dworkin sulla realizzazione cinematografica è evidente in Making Tootsie, uno sguardo intimo alla creazione di una commedia classica.
The narrative follows Edith Hahn, a spirited young woman whose life is upended when the Gestapo confines her to a ghetto and later a labor camp. Upon her return, she assumes a new identity as Grete Denner to evade capture. In Munich, she encounters Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member who, despite knowing her true identity, marries her and conceals her Jewish background. The story explores themes of identity, love, and survival against the backdrop of World War II.
Set in a dystopian 2165, this ecological thriller explores a world ravaged by climate change, where a single corporation controls the dwindling food supply. With rations reduced to one meal and two snacks daily, the emergence of an ancient wheat plague threatens global starvation. A diverse group, including scientists, farmers, and robot spies, rallies to combat the crisis, led by Lizzie, a pop singer who becomes an unexpected revolutionary figure. The narrative combines adventure with sharp social commentary, highlighting the power of song in the fight for change.
#1 New York Times Bestseller Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground. With the help of a Christian friend, she emerged in Munich as Grete Denner. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member who fell in love with her. Despite Edith's protests and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity a secret. In wrenching detail, Edith recalls a life of constant, almost paralyzing fear. She tells how German officials casually questioned the lineage of her parents; how during childbirth she refused all painkillers, afraid that in an altered state of mind she might reveal something of her past; and how, after her husband was captured by the Soviets, she was bombed out of her house and had to hide while drunken Russian soldiers raped women on the street. Despite the risk it posed to her life, Edith created a remarkable record of survival. She saved every document, as well as photographs she took inside labor camps. Now part of the permanent collection at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., these hundreds of documents, several of which are included in this volume, form the fabric of a gripping new chapter in the history of the Holocaust—complex, troubling, and ultimately triumphant.