Author: Ellen Marie Wiseman. Published by Kensington Publishing Corp., New York, NY., 2013, 1st Edition. Printed in USA. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with beautiful fold-out style covers, and deckle-edged paper. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 8.5 x 5.5 inch, 387 pages.
THE PLUM TREE, is a deeply moving and masterfully written story of human resilience and enduring love, The Plum Tree follows a young German woman through the chaos of World War II and its aftermath.
"Bloom where you're planted," is the advice Christine Bölz receives from her beloved Oma. But seventeen-year-old domestic Christine knows there is a whole world waiting beyond her small German village. It's a world she's begun to glimpse through music, booksâand through Isaac Bauerman, the cultured son of the wealthy Jewish family she works for. Yet the future she and Isaac dream of sharing faces greater challenges than their difference in stations. In the fall of 1938, Germany is changing rapidly under Hitler's regime. Anti-Jewish posters are everywhere, dissenting talk is silenced, and a new law forbids Christine from returning to her jobâand from having any relationship with Isaac. In the months and years that follow, Christine will confront the Gestapo's wrath and the horrors of Dachau, desperate to be with the man she loves, to survive--and finally, to speak out.Â
