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'The Blind Side of the Heart' tells of two World Wars, of hope, loneliness and love, and of a life lived in terrible times. It is a great family novel, a powerful portrayal of an era, and the story of a fascinating woman.

Scientist Nelly Senff is desperate to escape her life in East Berlin. The father of her two children has supposedly committed suicide, and she wants to leave behind the prying eyes of the Stasi. But the West is not all she hoped for.

Thomas and Ella grow up under the roof of their overpowering mother, a sculptress and a fervent believer in the socialist ideology of East Germany. She barely acknowledges Ella's vulnerable loneliness and Thomas's quiet aspirations. They create an imaginary world as a shelter from the coldness that surrounds them.

Eine idyllische Kindheit in der Lausitz am Vorabend des ersten Weltkriegs, das Berlin der goldenen Zwanziger, die große Liebe: So könnte das Glück klingen, denkt Helene. Aber steht ihr die Welt wirklich offen? Helene glaubt unerschütterlich daran, folgt ihren Träumen und lebt ihre Gefühle - auch gegen die Konventionen einer zunehmend unerbittlichen Zeit. Dann folgt der zweite große Krieg, Hoffnungen, Einsamkeit - und die Erkenntnis, dass alles verloren gehen kann. Julia Franck erzählt in ihrem großen neuen Roman ein Leben, das in die Mühlen eines furchtbaren Jahrhunderts gerät, und...

An international best seller and winner of the German Book Prize, "The Blindness of the Heart" is a dark marvel of a novel by one of Europe s freshest young voicesa family story spanning two world wars and several generations in a German family. In the devastating opening scene, a woman named Helene stands with her seven-year-old son in a provincial German railway station in 1945, amid the chaos of civilians fleeing west. Having survived with him through the horror and deprivation of the war years, she abandons him on the station platform and never returns.
The story quickly circles back...