FRAULEIN

by James McGovern ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

A full review of the rise to eminence and respectability of a young German woman gives play to factual issues of the war and occupation, and display to the main means of female survival in a chaotic have-not country. Maria, a well bred bourgeole' daughter, lost her parents in the terrible Dresden raids and moved to Berlin in time to receive the full force of the Russian ""liberation"". As we follow her from bed to bed, we are introduced to a kaleidoscopic assortment of fellows from the crude but passionate, Georgian officer, Russian variety, to the Negro Georgian who wants to marry her but is sent home after giving her back the desire to live. The author becomes more interested in his representatives of American and Russian generosity and brutality than in the girl who shadows through her experiences with a will to survive, an inner innocence, and definite charm. She lands the man who becomes ambassador and returns to a Germany where she sides with the men of peace against the militarists personified in an old lover. Meaty.

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Publisher: Crown

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1956

Categories: FICTION