EVA'S STORY PA

Recently published to wide acclaim in Britain, France, and Italy, Eva's Story marks the debut of an exciting new novelist. Linda D. Cirino's narrator, Eva, is a repressed, hard-working farm wife living in Nazi Germany. Her life is irrevocably changed when she decides to shelter in her chicken coop a young Jewish student who has escaped from a concentration camp. Her husband conscripted into the army and her children mesmerized by the youth movement, emotionally starved Eva and the young man soon fall in love. Nathanael educates her in politics and helps her tend the chickens to meet the growing demand for eggs. When it becomes too risky to continue hiding her lover, Eva arranges for him, as well as a traumatized young Jewish girl in her care, to flee across the border into Switzerland. Written with dramatic understatement and a wealth of detail, Eva's story is a memorable account of an emotional and political coming of age.