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A New Life
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General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Olga Segal
Published: Sep 30 2022
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Karl Kostner's desires are ordinary - he wants to live with his wife and watch his two sons grow up. But, he's an ethnic German, living in Poland at the start of World War II. Conscripted into the German army when it invades Poland, he deserts but then finds that he's not welcome in his old community. Hunted by the Germans who will shoot him as a deserter, unwelcome wherever he settles. He desperately searches for his family across a landscape that's ravaged by war. This is the story of a man who desperately wants to take his family to freedom. But first... he has to find them.
In this heart-warming tale of struggle against adversity, you can follow Karl's life as he battles to find his family in a world that's going up in flames.
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