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The Last Year of the War af Susan Meissner
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The Last Year of the War (udgave 2020)

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Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and As Bright as Heaven comes a novel about a German American teenager whose life changes forever when her immigrant family is sent to an internment camp during World War II.
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In 1943, Elise Sontag is a typical American teenager from Iowaâ??aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a legal U.S. resident for nearly two decades, is suddenly arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi sympathizer. The family is sent to an internment camp in Texas, where, behind the armed guards and barbed wire, Elise feels stripped of everything beloved and familiar, including her own identity.
 
The only thing that makes the camp bearable is meeting fellow internee Mariko Inoue, a Japanese-American teen from Los Angeles, whose friendship empowers Elise to believe the life she knew before the war will again be hers. Together in the desert wilderness, Elise and Mariko hold tight the dream of being young American women with a future beyond the fences.
 
But when the Sontag family is exchanged for American prisoners behind enemy lines in Germany, Elise will face head-on the person the war desires to make of her. In that devastating crucible she must discover if she has the will to rise above prejudice and hatred and re-claim her own destiny, or disappear into the image others have cast upon her.
 
The Last Year of the War tells a little-known story of World War II with great resonance for our own times and challenges the very notion of who we are when who weâ??ve always been is called into que… (mere)
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Titel:The Last Year of the War
Forfattere:Susan Meissner (Forfatter)
Info:Berkley (2020), Edition: Reprint, 416 pages
Samlinger:Historical Fiction, Adult Literature, exchanged for honest review, Finished Reading, Dit bibliotek
Vurdering:****
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The Last Year of the War af Susan Meissner

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Story of a german american teenagerwhose life changes forever when her immigrant family is sent to an internment camp during WWII. ( )
  janismack | Feb 19, 2024 |
Thank you to NetGalley, and the publisher, for providing me this fantastic historical fiction novel!

I think we all learned a bit (or a lot) about internment camps during WWII from the book, HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET. However, I was clueless that German (and Italian) families were also interned, to a lesser degree than Japanese families.

This was another great book enlightening me about the camps, what it was like to live there during the war, and especially what it was like to live in Germany in the last year of WWII. The author did a fantastic job weaving the story of a young German teenager and young Japanese teenager forming a life-long friendship. How society, family, and the war tore them apart, but with determination, these women found their way back together.

It's a terrific story about WWII, the ability for humans to persevere, and the kindness of others to keep them working toward a better life. ( )
  JillHannah | Nov 20, 2023 |
In this bittersweet work of historical fiction, Elise, now an elderly woman suffering from Alzheimer's recalls the days she and her family were forced to relocate first into a camp and then later sent back to Germany during the final year of the war. The only thing that made her time in the camp bearable was being reunited with her father, and the brief friendship she shared with another girl who was also forced to live in the camp. After the girls are separated they vow to one day reunite back in the states when they turn 18. Sadly they fell out of touch but Elise never forgot her friend. As both time and her memories are escaping from Elise, she travels alone in an attempt to reconnect with her long lost friend before it's too late.

I received an advance copy for review. ( )
  IreneCole | Jul 27, 2022 |
Elise Sontag's life changes drastically in 1943 is sent, together with her family to an internment camp in Texas. Her father, who has been a legal US citizen for almost twenty years, is accused of being a Nazi sympathizer. Elise meets Mariko Inoue, a Japanese-American girl at the camp and they form a close bond, despite that not all people around them approve.

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  MaraBlaise | Jul 23, 2022 |
Elise Sontag's life changes drastically in 1943 is sent, together with her family to an internment camp in Texas. Her father, who has been a legal US citizen for almost twenty years, is accused of being a Nazi sympathizer. Elise meets Mariko Inoue, a Japanese-American girl at the camp and they form a close bond, despite that not all people around them approve.

READ THE REST OF THE REVIEW OVER AT FRESH FICTION!
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  MaraBlaise | Jul 23, 2022 |
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Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and As Bright as Heaven comes a novel about a German American teenager whose life changes forever when her immigrant family is sent to an internment camp during World War II.
 
In 1943, Elise Sontag is a typical American teenager from Iowaâ??aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a legal U.S. resident for nearly two decades, is suddenly arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi sympathizer. The family is sent to an internment camp in Texas, where, behind the armed guards and barbed wire, Elise feels stripped of everything beloved and familiar, including her own identity.
 
The only thing that makes the camp bearable is meeting fellow internee Mariko Inoue, a Japanese-American teen from Los Angeles, whose friendship empowers Elise to believe the life she knew before the war will again be hers. Together in the desert wilderness, Elise and Mariko hold tight the dream of being young American women with a future beyond the fences.
 
But when the Sontag family is exchanged for American prisoners behind enemy lines in Germany, Elise will face head-on the person the war desires to make of her. In that devastating crucible she must discover if she has the will to rise above prejudice and hatred and re-claim her own destiny, or disappear into the image others have cast upon her.
 
The Last Year of the War tells a little-known story of World War II with great resonance for our own times and challenges the very notion of who we are when who weâ??ve always been is called into que

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