
- 544 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
#1 International Bestseller " The Moment is utterly engrossing...Kennedy is astonishing at communicating his characters' emotional turmoil, the complexity of their situation, and the coldness of the Cold WarâŚHighly recommended for all types of fiction readers." â Library Journal (starred review) Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced writer in the midst of a rueful middle age. Living a very private life in Maine, in touch only with his daughter and still trying to recover from the end of a long marriage, his solitude is disrupted one wintry morning by the arrival of a box that is postmarked Berlin. The name on the boxâDussmannâunsettles him completely, for it belongs to the woman with whom he had an intense love affair twenty-six years ago in Berlin at a time when the city was cleaved in two and personal and political allegiances were frequently haunted by the deep shadows of the Cold War.Refusing initially to confront what he might find in that box, Thomas nevertheless is forced to grapple with a past he has never discussed with any living person and in the process relive those months in Berlin when he discovered, for the first and only time in his life, the full, extraordinary force of true love. But Petra Dussmann, the woman to whom he lost his heart, was not just a refugee from a police state, but also someone who lived with an ongoing sorrow that gradually rewrote both their destinies.A love story of great epic sweep and immense emotional power, The Moment explores why and how we fall in loveâand the way we project on to others that which our hearts so desperately seek.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Part One
- Part Two
- Part Three
- Part Four
- Part Five
- Some Afterthoughts
- Acknowledgments
- âThe Pursuit of Happinessâ Teaser
- âA Special Relationshipâ Teaser
- âState of the Unionâ Teaser
- âThe Woman in the Fifthâ Teaser
- âTemptationâ Teaser
- About the Author
- Copyright