Secret Father
By:
- Synopsis
- Secret Father is a suspenseful drama of family and politics set in Cold War Berlin. Missed signals, cloaked motives, false postures, and panicked responses echo tragically across borders and generations when, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a father and son recount the tense events of nearly thirty years before. In 1961, just before the Wall rises, three teenagers from an American school in West Germany travel to the Communist side of the divided city to join a rally. Unknown to them, their parents have unfinished business reaching back to World War II which will pull the teens into the vortex of an international incident.
- Copyright:
- 2003
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780547526836
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780618485352
- Publisher:
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Date of Addition:
- 06/08/14
- Copyrighted By:
- James Carroll
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- N/A
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
Reviews
4 out of 5
By Shoshana Hathaway on Jun 12, 2014
This is a very well told story, and though there is little overt suspense, the tension winds slowly, one turn at a time, until the spring releases, and you realize that you are holding your breath. I especially liked this book because I visited Berlin in 1968 or so, and this brought back memories of that wonderful, tense city, and of the Berliners, whose courage and good humor in the face of extreme stress I still admire.