num_pages: 444
description: On the eve of World War II twin brothers are divided by the murder of a German Jew in this epic tale from New York Timesbestselling author Taylor Caldwell. Karl Erlich loves his country. But these are dangerous times for Germany whose poor and downtrodden have been seduced by an Austrian sign painter named Adolf Hitler. Karls twin brother Kurt a distinguished scientist has already pledged his allegiance to the Third Reich a regime that Karl finds cruel and oppressive. But he soon has even more reason to fear: There is talk of the Nazis singling out the Jews for extermination. Karl and Kurts younger sister Gerda is engaged to Eric Rheinhardt a German Jew. Before Gerda and Eric can escape to America Eric is arrested by the Gestapo. Then the unthinkable happens and in the wake of searing tragedy Karl cuts all ties with his brother. A onetime candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature he is no longer able to write eat or sleep. His wife Therese fears for his sanity. She knows she must get her husband away from the madness that is now Germany. But can she rescue her husband who is rapidly becoming like their beleaguered Rhinelandinconsolable frightened and thirsting for revenge? As she seeks answers unknowingly thrusting herself into harms way Therese will discover the powerful ties that bind German to Jew and come to realize that the only one way to save Karl is to save Germany. Set in the years of the Nazis ascent to power Time No Longer is at once a universal and intensely personal novel about the struggle against hate and fear that can elevate an ordinary man to extraordinary heights and the unassailable bond between two brothers. 
language: English
title: Time No Longer
publisher: Open Road Media