Winner of the HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction, Ellen Keith is a Canadian writer and a recent graduate of the University of British Columbia's MF. · Buy a cheap copy of The Dutch Wife book by Ellen Keith. A sweeping story of love and survival during World War II AMSTERDAM, MAY As the tulips bloom and the Nazis tighten their grip across the city, the last signs 5/5(1). /5 Stars The Dutch Wife by Ellen Keith is a rotating POV novel that features 3 main characters throughout World War II. The first is the Dutch Wife herself, Marijke. She is loosely involved in the resistance in Amsterdam until she is captured by the Nazis and sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp, and later moved to Buchenwald/5.
The Dutch Wife Ellen Keith. Reviewed by Magdalena Johansson Posted Febru. Historical | Thriller Historical | Romance Time Slip. THE DUTCH WIFE is a dual storyline book. In we get to follow Marijke de Graaf as she is forced to choose between a slow death in a labor camp or join the camp brothel. Review of THE DUTCH WIFE by Ellen Keith. Stars. This novel is narrated from the perspective of three characters. From the first person point of view, we get the story of Marijke de Graaf, a member of the Dutch resistance, who, along with her husband, is captured by the Germans. She chooses to work in a brothel servicing prisoners in the. From the Netherlands to Germany to Argentina, The Dutch Wife is a novel about the blurred lines between love and lust, abuse and resistance, and right and wrong. It is a harrowing and ultimately redemptive story about the capacity of ordinary people to persevere under extraordinary circumstances. © Ellen Keith (P) Harlequin.
From the Netherlands to Germany to Argentina, The Dutch Wife braids together the stories of three individuals who share a dark secret and are entangled in two of the most oppressive reigns of terror in modern history. Keith, you manage the tricky job of foregrounding both the perpetrators and victims/survivors. The Dutch Wife is a brutal, searing depiction of life under fascism, and how different people cope, survive and fight against it. It is also a fascinating exploration of toxic/ fragile masculinity, and its rippling effects. Keith’s lackluster debut tells the stories of an SS officer in love with a married Dutch woman who’s been forced into prostitution by the Nazis in , and the disappearance of a student revolutionary some 30 years later in Argentina. After being arrested in Amsterdam, beautiful Marijke de Graaf is separated from her beloved husband, Theo.
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