This never-before-translated masterpiece--by a heroic best-selling
writer who saw his life crumble when he wouldn't join the Nazi Party--is
based on a true story.
It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis
and tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decides to
take a stand when their only son is killed at the front. With nothing
but their grief and each other against the awesome power of the Reich,
they launch a simple, clandestine resistance campaign that soon has an
enraged Gestapo on their trail, and a world of terrified neighbors and
cynical snitches ready to turn them in.
In the end, it's more than an edge-of-your-seat thriller, more than a
moving romance, even more than literature of the highest order--it's a
deeply stirring story of two people standing up for what's right, and
for each other.