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Echoes

by Danielle Steel

ISBN: 0440240786
ISBN-13: 9780440240785
Format: Paperback

Summary

This multi-generational saga of star-crossed lovers by bestselling romance author Danielle Steel spans two world wars. When German Jew Beata Wittgenstein meets French Catholic Antoine de Vallerand in 1915, they fall dizzyingly in love and marry, despite the shocked disapproval of both their families. The now-Catholic Beata keeps her former religion a secret from both her daughters, one of whom, Amadea, has become a nun. But Amadea's hitherto unknown heritage will become a danger to her when World War II breaks out. And the brave men who are fighting the war in secret will divide Amadea's loyalties between her religious vows and her passionate heart.

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Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Dell Pub Co
Published date: 2005
Size: 4.25 x 6.75 inches
Weight: 0.5 pounds
Pages: 447

Publisher's Notes

On the shores of Lake Geneva in 1915, the Jewish beauty Beata Wittgenstein falls in love with a Catholic French officer and marries him despite the wishes of her family, but when Hitler's terror arrives, Beata has to undertake a harrowing journey of survival and reconsiders her roots. Reprint.

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