Book description
Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced American writer living a very private
life in Maine. Until, one wintry morning, his solitude is disrupted by
the arrival of a package postmarked Berlin.
But what is more unsettling is the name accompanying the return
address on the package: Petra Dussmann. For she is the woman with whom
Thomas had an intense love affair twenty-five years before in a
divided Berlin, where people lived fearfully under the shadows of the
Cold War.
And so Thomas is forced to grapple with a past he has always kept
hidden. For Petra Dussman was a refugee from the police state of East
Germany. And her tragic secrets were to re-write both their destinies.
Douglas Kennedy's previous novels include the critically acclaimed
bestsellers
The Big Picture, The Pursuit of Happiness, A Special Relationship
and
The Woman in the Fifth
. He is also the author of three highly praised travel books. His work
has been translated into twenty-two languages. In 2006 he was awarded
the French decoration of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Born in Manhattan, he has two children and currently divides his time
between London, Paris, Berlin and Maine.
