
- 416 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This powerful, poignant, and inspirational novel, a Lambda Literary Award winner, is the true story of two unlikely lovers set against World War II Berlinâa riveting chronicle of love, loyalty, and survival against all odds.
"A memorable, vivid, and intimate portrait." â Entertainment Weekly
Berlin 1942. Lilly Wust, 29, married, four children, led a life as did millions of German women. But then she met the 21-year-old Felice Schragenheim.
It was love almost at first sight. Aimée and Jaguar started forging plans for the future. They composed poems and love letters to each other, and wrote their own marriage contract. When Jaguar-Felice admitted to her lover that she was Jewish, this dangerous secret drew the two women even closer to one another. But their luck didn't last. On August 21, 1944, Felice was arrested and deported.
At the age of 80, Lilly Wust told her story to Erica Fischer, who turned it into a poignant testimony. After the book appeared in 1994 she was contacted by additional contemporaries of Aimée and Jaguar, who offered new material that has been integrated into the present edition.
The book, translated into twenty languages, and the film based on itâdirected by Max FĂ€rberböck, with Juliane Köhler and Maria Schrader in the leading rolesâhave made AimĂ©e and Jaguar's story known around the world.
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Table of contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- List of Characters
- Epigraph
- Contents
- One
- Two
- Three
- Four
- Five
- Six
- Seven
- Eight
- Nine
- Ten
- Eleven
- Twelve
- About the Author
- Credits
- Copyright
- About the Publisher