Product Overview
In this honest and deeply moving book, we share the emotions, the hopes and fears, of a doctor's family in Germany during the last day of World War II and the beginning of the American occupation. Through Karin Lorenz, the doctor's nearly seventeen-year-old daughter, the family is invited to stay with a young and dedicated minister, Helmut Lobeliius, in a village away from the direct path of the on-coming U.S Army and the Allied bombers. The end of the war is obviously only a matter of time; Dr. Lorenz wants his wife and daughter and his young son Till to be as far removed from danger as possible. So Karin's dearest wish comes true, Now, daily, she will see Helmut, with whom - despite a great difference in age and background - she has fallen deeply in love.
There, in the medievel village of Eberstein, this many-faceted story unfolds. It is a story of radiant young love and bittersweet sacrifice made all the more poignant by the surrounding tragedy and brutality. But Dangerous Spring is more than that. It is a finely wrought, fully realized portrayal of a time and place, of people who show immense courage or great cowardice, and of the human spirit triumphant.
Drawing on her own firsthand experience, Mrs. Benary - as readers of The Ark and Castle on the Border will know - writes with such vitality and such deep compassion that her characters achieve complete reality. This is an outstanding novel for young adults.
This copy is acceptable condition. A former library copy, it has many stamps, tape, and staining on the endpapers and block. The pages and spine are in remarkably good shape for their age. The dust jacket has the protective plastic cover taped in place.
