The Dutch Wife, Ellen Keith
The Dutch Wife, Ellen Keith
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The Dutch Wife

Author: Ellen Keith

Narrator: Abby Craden, Eric Martin, Charlie Thurston

Unabridged: 10 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/04/2018


Synopsis

A sweeping story of love and survival during World War II

AMSTERDAM, MAY 1943. As the tulips bloom and the Nazis tighten their grip across the city, the last signs of Dutch resistance are being swept away. Marijke de Graaf and her husband are arrested and deported to different concentration camps in Germany. Marijke is given a terrible choice: to suffer a slow death in the labor camp or—for a chance at survival—to join the camp brothel.

On the other side of the barbed wire, SS officer Karl MŸller arrives at the camp hoping to live up to his father’s expectations of wartime glory. When he encounters the newly arrived Marijke, this meeting changes their lives forever.

Woven into the narrative across space and time is Luciano Wagner’s ordeal in 1977 Buenos Aires, during the heat of the Argentine Dirty War. In his struggle to endure military captivity, he searches for ways to resist from a prison cell he may never leave.

From the Netherlands to Germany to Argentina, The Dutch Wife braids together the stories of three individuals who share a dark secret and are entangled in two of the most oppressive reigns of terror in modern history. This is a novel about the blurred lines between love and lust, abuse and resistance, and right and wrong, as well as the capacity for ordinary people to persevere and do the unthinkable in extraordinary circumstances.

Don’t miss THE DUTCH ORPHAN! Ellen's next riveting novel set about a woman who must choose between family loyalty and her own safety.

About Ellen Keith

Ellen Keith is the author of the bestselling novel The Dutch Wife. She has an undergraduate degree in history with a focus on WWII/Holocaust Studies from the University of Alberta, as well as an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. She is originally from St. Albert, Canada, and currently lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Katie on October 05, 2018

3.5 stars I appreciate what the author was trying to do with this historical fiction book although I do think there are some flaws. While I am glad that I read it, I had an uncomfortable feeling while reading for a few reasons. Most of the story takes place in a concentration camp so obviously that m......more

Goodreads review by Maria on January 25, 2020

A Filha do Holocausto A Holandesa começa com H de Holocausto e termina com A de Argentina. Desenterra duas verdades esquecidas e pouco difundidas: A prostituição nos campos de trabalho da Alemanha Nazi e a Guerra Suja da Argentina, um mini-holocausto que ocorreu entre 1976 e 1983, uma época dominada......more

Goodreads review by Lindsay L on December 18, 2019

4 stars for my first audiobook! An excellent debut historical fiction novel! This book offers a very unique WWII perspective. We meet Marijke, Karl and Luciano. Marijke is a young wife and member of the Resistance who is torn from her husband and home. Upon capture and imprisonment, her beauty makes......more

Goodreads review by Mel (Epic Reading) on July 31, 2018

The historical fiction coming out in the last few years that depicts regular people and their lives in extenuating circumstances has really been wonderful. I now add The Dutch Wife to the list of really great writing and storytelling. As always with any WWII story set at a concentration camp there a......more

Goodreads review by Karen on August 20, 2023

Catching Up still with Goodreads reviews. I had been a bit worn out from my HF and WWII books, and so I took a break from reporting about them for this past week. This one had also been a difficult one to talk about, too. So, I thought I would ruminate on it for a while before setting down my review......more