Michael Wallner

"Nell''Aprile del 1943 un giovane soldato tedesco, Rotti, e a Parigi con l''ingrato compito di tradurre gli interrogatori della Gestapo. Terminato il lavoro quotidiano, Roth si cambia d''abito, assume un nuovo nome e si trasforma in Antoine, appassionato frequentatore della vita parigina. Di sera, anche Chantal subisce una metamorfosi: da affascinante librala a ballerina in un locale equivoco e membro attivo della Resistenza all''occupazione nazista. L''incontro tra Chantal e Roth - accomunati da una grande passione, i libri - e fatale. Il desiderio mettera a dura prova il senso del dovere dei due giovani, sprofondandoli in una spirale di tradimenti e violenza, sino a un inatteso colpo di scena. "

Michael Wallner's thrilling first novel, set in occupied France during World War II, movingly recounts the impossible love affair between a German soldier and a French resistance fighter.Roth, a young soldier in the SS and a fluent French translator, works as an interpreter during the interrogation of Resistance fighters. But while off-duty, he slips away from his fellow officers, changes into civilian clothes, and wanders aimlessly through Paris disguised as his alter ego "Antoine." One day he is drawn into an antiquarian bookshop and becomes enchanted with the bookseller's beautiful daughter, Chantal. The two begin to meet and fall in love before Roth has the courage to reveal his true identity, or the time to discover that Chantal is part of the Resistance. Written in an elegant and arresting style, April in Paris is an engrossing novel from a promising new talent.

Written in an elegant and arresting style, this page-turner is a thrilling novel by a promising new writer, who has brought the reality of a war-torn past very much to the present.

A la suite de la publication dun article sur la profanation de tombes dans le cimetiere juif de Shonhauserallee, a Berlin, la journaliste Hanna Golden reçoit des menaces de mort par mail. Inquiete et desemparee devant tant de violence, elle sadresse a la police qui loriente vers la LKA 5, le departement de la surete de letat, specialise dans la lutte antiterroriste. Lenquete est confiee au chef de cette unite, Alain Liebermann, membre dune grande famille dintellectuels juifs berlinois.

When people on Pariss bustling streets look at Michael Roth, they see little more than a Parisian student, a quietly spoken young man with a book under his arm, handsome but guarded. What they do not realize is that he is carrying a painful secret, one that he cannot even reveal to the woman he loves. For Michael is no ordinary Frenchman but a German. He has been sent to Paris to assist the Nazis in dealing with Resistance fighters. Desperate to escape his daily life, he steals into the world of the oppressed Parisians, and into the path of Chantal. But as Michael falls for the booksellers beautiful daughter, he discovers that a persons past always catches up with them. Soon he will be forced to make the ultimate sacrifice and choose between his country, his life and his destiny. Daring, romantic and of exceptional quality, April in Paris is an extraordinary love story which will stay with you long after its final pages.

An intriguing love and espionage story set in Moscow in the late 1970s, in the midst of the Cold War. Twenty-nine-year-old Anna Viktorovna lives in Moscow with her young son and her father, a once popular and respected poet who has fallen into disgrace because of his dissident views. Her husband, a junior officer in the Red Army, is on active duty and living seven time zones away. Anna struggles gamely through her difficult existence, doing the best she can amidst the long lines, bureaucratic inferno, and corruption and incompetence of the police state. When she meets and makes an impression on a powerful Soviet officialAlexey Bulgyakovher life begins to look a little brighter. Alexey is married and nearly twice her age, but he turns out to be a man of infinite patience and forbearance, and gradually a strange but solid bond grows between them. Though Anna still loves her mostly absent husband and harbors no illusions about the future, she and Alexey become lovers. Soon Anna and Alexeys burgeoning romance is irrevocably threatened when a KGB colonel forces Anna to spy on Alexey, who is suspected of disloyalty to the state. Though Anna loathes the notion of double-crossing the man she has come to love, when her family is threatened she must comply. But Anna isnt the only character playing a double game. With bravura storytelling, stunning authenticity, and complex yet sympathetic characterizations, The Russian Affair depicts a love that struggles to survive against all odds and despite its many-layered deceptions.

Michael Wallners thrilling first novel, set in occupied France during World War II, movingly recounts the impossible love affair between a German soldier and a French resistance fighter.Roth, a young soldier in the SS and a fluent French translator, works as an interpreter during the interrogation of Resistance fighters. But while off-duty, he slips away from his fellow officers, changes into civilian clothes, and wanders aimlessly through Paris disguised as his alter ego "Antoine." One day he is drawn into an antiquarian bookshop and becomes enchanted with the booksellers beautiful daughter, Chantal. The two begin to meet and fall in love before Roth has the courage to reveal his true identity, or the time to discover that Chantal is part of the Resistance. Written in an elegant and arresting style, April in Paris is an engrossing novel from a promising new talent.

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