The Final Promise

A novel based on a true story

  • At the age of five, she is put in a Yugoslavian orphanage, and at eleven she is on the run on her own – the life of Anni Eckardt leaves nobody untouched
  • Over 15 million copies of Hera Lind’s novels sold (previously published by Diana/Penguin Random House)
  • The new wonderful non-fiction novel by no. 1 SPIEGEL best-selling author Hera Lind

Poignant. Dramatic. Touching.

 

In Transylvania in 1944, Anna is brutally taken from the arms of her young mother - and transported to a Yugoslavian orphanage. Only thanks to the power of her absolute desperation, does the 5-year-old use her bare hands to dig a hole in the cold, hard earth under the fence. But when six years later, Anna is finally reunited with her mother, the badly traumatised woman can no longer give her love. And in post-war Germany, nobody has time for empathy. It is only when Anna meets Hans, the son of a farmer, that she thinks she has found some kind of happiness. Until the horrors of hell catch up with her ...

 

“This novel went straight to my heart. The story is poignant, haunting and shocking - and today, it is more relevant than ever.” Michaela Kenklies 

 

“That is a very, very touching and dramatic story.” ZDF Mittagsmagazin about Die Hölle war der Preis

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  • Publisher: Knaur TB
  • Release: 02.11.2022
  • ISBN: 978-3-426-52835-8
  • 400 Pages
  • Author: Hera Lind
The Final Promise
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Hera Lind

Hera Lind studierte Germanistik, Musik und Theologie und war Sängerin, bevor sie mit zahlreichen Romanen sensationellen Erfolg hatte. Mit ihren Tatsachenromanen, die alle auf wahren Geschichten beruhen, erobert Hera Lind immer wieder verlässlich die vordersten Plätze der  SPIEGEL -Bestsellerliste. Hera Lind lebt mit ihrer Familie in
Salzburg.