The Undertaking by Audrey Magee
A German soldier fighting on the Eastern Front enters a marriage of convenience with a young woman in Berlin to gain leave and security, only to find their hastily forged bond tested by escalating brutality and deprivation. As he endures the horrors of Stalingrad, she navigates the privileges and peril of a family aligned with the Nazi regime, seeking advancement amid air raids and scarcity. Their intertwined fates expose complicity, ambition, fragile affection, and the moral corrosion of survival, culminating in stark reckonings as the war consumes them.
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- Published
- 2014
- Nationality
- Irish
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 224-240
- Original Language
- English
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