Secrets and Shadows
- ISBN-10
- 1640089004
- ISBN-13
- 9781640089006
- Series
- Secrets and Shadows
- Pages
- 296
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-03-05
- Author
- Roberta Silman
Description
Secrets and Shadows is a novel about how the events of the Second World War can re-verberate into the future. Silman uses the fall of the Berlin Wall to explore the long marriage and divorce of her protagonists, Eve and Paul. When Eve agrees to accompany her former husband to Berlin, Paul recalls and narrates the past he has never been able to share with his wife. Eve begins to see how Paul's hidden childhood in Nazi Germany, shaped and influenced their marriage, and how his trauma exacted a price in their relationship. The novel is about the complexities of guilt, anger, love and lust, and above all forgiveness as Eve and Paul help each other confront a bitter past and move forward in their lives.
