Innocence and Evil

It is the mid-nineteen twenties. The calm of the household is broken by shocking news. The family is a pillar of respectable middle class, German society. They have a liberal, open minded tradition, fiercely anti-communist, proud of German culture, but internationalist in outlook, a perfect fit for the vibrant, though immature democracy. The next twenty years leave nothing unscathed by the march of German politics. Heinz, the son and his sister, Inge, seek their own, very different paths. To fight, to die, to run, to hide; to cry, to surrender, to hate, to love; all are options. None is easy and the right choice today may not avoid the peril of tomorrow. Two decades are woven through with ever darkening shadows. Chance encounters bring love as well as tragedy. A close but ambivalent relationship develops between two friends, each from different sides of the Baltic Sea. Brita's Swedish family is almost a mirror image of Inge's, but she struggles to make sense of the abyss into which Europe is falling.

• | Author: Paul Fletcher-Tomenius, Birgitta Fletcher-Tomenius
• | Publisher: Independently published
• | Publication Date: Jul 17, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 357 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1983305146
• | ISBN-13: 9781983305146