Für Elise
Overview
Gold Medal Winner, Historical Fiction: Romance -- 2026 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY).
He survived the POW camp by holding onto hope. She survived the war by letting it go.
In 1956, more than a decade after the end of World War II, Hans Becker is finally released from a Soviet POW camp and returns to Germany. The reunion is disheartening-his beloved Dresden is largely blackened rubble, and his feelings of disorientation and melancholy hinder his attempt to revive the life-and love-he left behind.
Elise, the once delicate teenager whose memory Hans carried in his heart, has, through unspeakable trauma, transformed into a strong, independent woman skeptical of love. Yet just as she and Hans can spot traces of splendor in the ruins and oppression of Iron Curtain-era Dresden, so they each can see flashes of what attracted them to their long-ago sweetheart. But they-and their world-have changed so much. Are they willing to risk everything to seek a new beginning?
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798218565770
- ISBN-10: 9798218565770
- Publisher: Amalgam Books
- Publish Date: May 2025
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.78 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.89 pounds
- Page Count: 348
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