Kommandant's Girl (Jenoff) - Book Reviews

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(Starred review.)  With luminous simplicity, Jenoff's breathtaking debut chronicles the life of a young Jewish bride during the Nazi occupation of Krakow, Poland, in WWII.... [A] handsome Nazi is so impressed by [Emma's] German language skills (and her beauty) that he asks her to become his personal assistant.... [T]he chemistry between them presents challenges that test her loyalties to Jacob and her heart. This is historical romance at its finest.
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During a dinner party, Emma/Anna is introduced to Nazi Kommadant Richwalder.... [and] becomes intimate with the enemy to gather information. In her moving first novel, Jenoff offers an insightful portrait of people forced into an untenable situation and succeeds in humanizing the unfathomable as well as the heroic. —Patty Engleman
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