num_pages: 325
description: As a beautiful, talented violinist, 17 year-old Kira Klein was destined to be assigned to Barracks 24. From the first day she is imprisoned in the Auschwitz brothel, Kira becomes the unwilling mistress of Raulf Becker, an SS lieutenant whose responsibility is overseeing the annihilation of the Jewish prisoners. Over the next few months, these sworn enemies change and despite the warnings of their friends, they begin to fall in love. With the support of the other girls in Barracks 24, Raulf and Kira marry in a surprisingly romantic secret ceremony. They escape and are captured by the resistance, which they join. The war is nearing an end when Fate steps in and changes everything. Throughout the page-turning conclusion, the reader is taken on a series of twists and turns that is both thrilling and heart wrenching. Kira's Diary is the ultimate forbidden love story, and the author has found a way for the reader to believe that love truly can conquer all. Through the! stench of death and despair and everything unholy emerges a rich love story, richly told with utter sensitivity, warmth and even humor.
language: English
title: Kira's Diary
titlecomplete: Kira's Diary
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Durban House Publishing