The Plum Tree, Ellen Marie Wiseman
The Plum Tree, Ellen Marie Wiseman
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The Plum Tree

Author: Ellen Marie Wiseman

Narrator: Madeleine Lambert

Unabridged: 12 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/29/2013


Synopsis

"Bloom where you're planted," is the advice Christine Bolz receives from her beloved Oma. But seventeen-year-old domestic Christine knows there is a whole world waiting beyond her small German village. It's a world she's begun to glimpse through music, books—and through Isaac Bauerman, the cultured son of the wealthy Jewish family she works for.

Yet the future she and Isaac dream of sharing faces greater challenges than their difference in stations. In the fall of 1938, Germany is changing rapidly under Hitler's regime. Anti-Jewish posters are everywhere, dissenting talk is silenced, and a new law forbids Christine from returning to her job—and from having any relationship with Isaac. In the months and years that follow, Christine will confront the Gestapo's wrath and the horrors of Dachau, desperate to be with the man she loves, to survive—and finally, to speak out.

Set against the backdrop of the German homefront, this is an unforgettable novel of courage and resolve, of the inhumanity of war, and the heartbreak and hope left in its wake.

About Ellen Marie Wiseman

Ellen Marie Wiseman is the author of the novels The Plum Tree and What She Left Behind. Born and raised in Three Mile Bay, a tiny hamlet in northern New York, Ellen now lives on the shores of Lake Ontario with her husband, two spoiled shih-tzus, and a rescued yellow Lab. She loves to cook, travel, garden, watch movies, and spend time with her children and grandchildren.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Debra

I had the honor to read the original version of The Plum Tree before my dear friend Ellen even had an agent!!!! When I started reading it, I could not put it down. Although it takes place in war torn Germany during the reign of Hitler, the story is more about the German people, their diversity, thei......more

Goodreads review by Laura

I had a hard time sticking with Ellen Marie Wiseman's tale of a WW II romance between a Jewish Boy and an German girl in the beginning. There was almost too much description of place - meeting every flower and chicken in the town, so to speak, and Wiseman kept flinging German phrases into the story......more