Oranges for Christmas, Margarita Morris
Oranges for Christmas, Margarita Morris
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Oranges for Christmas
A Berlin Wall Escape Novel

Author: Margarita Morris

Narrator: Christa Lewis, James Anderson Foster

Unabridged: 8 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/21/2020


Synopsis

The war is over but the fight for freedom has only just begun.

Berlin. August 1961. The Cold War. When the Berlin Wall brutally divides East from West, Sabine is separated from her beloved brother, Dieter. Escape to the West is the only option if the family is to be reunited. But the Wall is guarded by soldiers operating a shoot to kill policy. And Sabine finds herself at the mercy of the Stasi and their brutal interrogation techniques. She must fight to escape. She must fight to survive.

Separated from his family by the Berlin Wall, Dieter teams up with a rebel group determined to rescue their loved ones from East Berlin. They have a plan. But it's a dangerous mission, beset with difficulties at every turn. Who can they really trust? Who is friend or foe?

About Margarita Morris

As a student of French and German at Jesus College, Oxford, it was an unforgettable trip to Berlin in 1987, including the former East Berlin, that became the inspiration for Margarita Morris's Berlin Wall escape novel Oranges for Christmas many years later. Margarita then pursued her interest in Eastern Europe by writing a novel about the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 in Goodbye to Budapest. Her latest book explores the turbulent story of Poland in World War Two. Margarita is married with two children and lives in Oxfordshire.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sinziana on November 29, 2023

absolut superbă, recomand tuturor celor pasionați de ficțiuni istorice, de comunism & în general de cărțile bine scrise......more

Goodreads review by Georgiana on February 10, 2025

Orice luptă e pierdută dacă nu protestezi, dar mereu există puțină speranță. Unele evenimente din trecut sunt odioase, dar trebuie să nu uităm, să nu rămânem indiferenți.Cunoștințele mele despre Zidul Berlinului, Stasi și Germania de Est erau insuficiente, am citit cu multă curiozitate despre subiec......more

Goodreads review by Taisia on December 30, 2022

4,5⭐️ Ne aflăm în Berlinul anului ‘61. Dieter trăiește și lucrează în Berlinul de Vest unde își permite o viață decentă. În acest timp, în Berlinul de Est, mama sa și cele două surori, Sabine și Brigitte, trăiesc la limita existenței dat fiind regimul comunist instaurat aici. Și dacă frații se văd cu......more

Goodreads review by Aamil on January 09, 2016

This story is about the hard, gray lives of the people in East Germany. Despite painting a realistically grim picture, the story itself is far from a sad one. Nobody wants to read a miserable story, and Margarita makes sure that hers is far from one. She writes about characters that are full of opti......more

Goodreads review by Kav on November 08, 2023

A gripping tale of survival and ultimate triumph in East Berlin the days and months after the wall went up. I listened the audio book narrated by James Anderson Foster and Christa Lewis. I thought having two narrators really enhanced the storytelling quality. It's told from 17 year-old Sabine's poin......more