THE MOMENT

Thomas nesbitt is a divorced american writer living a very private life in maine. until, one wintry morning, his solitude is disrupted by the arrival of a package postmarked berlin.but what is more unsettling is the name accompanying the return address on the package: petra dussmann. for she is the woman with whom thomas had an intense love affair twenty-five years before in a divided berlin, where people lived fearfully under the shadows of the cold war.and so thomas is forced to grapple with a past he has always kept hidden. for petra dussman was a refugee from the police state of east germany. and her tragic secrets were to re-write both their destinies.