The Moment
By: Douglas Kennedy
Publisher: Hutchinson
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780091795849
Subjects: Travel writers; Fiction; Americans; Cold War; Foreign agents; History
Description: Travel writer Thomas Nesbitt, age 50, retreats into his house in Maine to wallow in memories of living in Germany 25 years earlier after the success of his first book. In West Berlin as a worker for Radio Liberty, Thomas meets his soul mate, Petra Dussmann, a translator with an iron curtain around her heart. Petra's mysterious melancholy proves irresistible, and as Thomas is drawn into a passionate affair, he also becomes entangled in spy games played by the Stasi and the CIA.
Table of contents: title: Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced American writer in the midst of a rueful middle age. One wintry morning, a parcel arrives from Berlin, return address Dussman; title: the name of the woman with whom he had an intense love affair twenty-five years ago in Berlin. Thomas finds himself grappling with a past he has always kept hidden; title: and reliving those months in Berlin, when he discovered the extraordinary force of real love. But Petra Dussman was not just a refugee from a police state, but also someone who lived with an ongoing sorrow ... which gradually rewrote both their destinies.