num_pages: 368
description: WINNER - National Indie Excellence Award 2017 Literary Fiction.HONORABLE MENTION - San Francisco Book Festival 2017.BRONZE WINNER - Foreword INDIES 2016 War &amp; Military.A great historical novel a touching family saga and a noir wartime thriller all rolled into one terrific narrative. Lee Child New York Times best-selling authorSet in Denmark in the darkest days of World War II THE SECOND WINTER is a cinematic novel that in its vivid portrayal of a family struggling to survive the German occupation both captures a savage moment in history and exposes the violence and want inherent in a father's love. It is 1941. In occupied Denmark an uneasy relationship between the Danish government and the Germans allows the country to function under the protection of Hitlers army while Danish resistance fighters wage a bloody covert battle against the Nazis. Fredrik Gregersen a brutish tormented caretaker of a small farm in Jutland laboring to keep his son and daughter fed profits from helping Jewish fugitives cross the border into Sweden. Meanwhile in Copenhagen Polina a young refugee from Krakow finds herself impressed into prostitution by Germans and Danes alike. When Fredrik steals a precious necklace from a helpless family of Jews his own familys fate becomes intertwined with Polinas triggering a ripple effect that will take decades and the fall of the Berlin Wall to culminate.
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title: The Second Winter
publisher: Other Press