Bonds of Life

  • SPIEGEL bestselling author Mechtild Borrmann artfully weaves together the fates of three strong women – from the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall
  • Over 40,000 copies of this title sold
  • Foreign rights of her previous novels sold to France: Lattès; Turkey: Bali; Denmark: Klim; Japan: Kawade; Poland: NapoleonV; Holland: Bruna; Czech Republic: Albatros; Georgia: Academic Press

The New Major Novel by the Impressive Chronicler

 

From World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the threads of fate connect Lene, Nora, and Lieselotte: Although they meet as strangers in a time of fear and terror, they become friends who support each other and take great risks. Nurse Nora does everything to help Lene save the life of her young son, Leo. Because of a minor disability, Leo is classified as a »Reichsausschusskind« – a child targeted by the Nazi euthanasia program. In 1942, Nora meets Lieselotte in Danzig. Three years later, the women are deported to a Gulag in the Soviet Union – as part of the 900,000 laborers promised to Stalin as reparations. When Adenauer begins to buy back these Germans in 1949, Lieselotte gives up everything she has left to make it possible for Nora to return home. Many years later, shortly after the fall of the Wall, she receives a disturbing letter instantly catapulting her back into the past...

»Feldpost (Field Post) delves deeply into the past and the souls of its characters, which Borrmann portrays with sensitive insight in detailed, straightforward language and after intense observation.« Neue Westfälische

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  • Publisher: Droemer HC
  • Release: 03.11.2025
  • ISBN: 978-3-426-28220-5
  • 288 Pages
  • Author: Mechtild Borrmann
Bonds of Life
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Mechtild Borrmann

Mechtild Bormann, born 1960, spent her childhood and youth on the Lower Rhine. Before she turned to writing, she worked in the food service industry, and as a dance and theatre pedagogue. Her crime novel Wer das Schweigen bricht became a bestseller and was awarded the German Crime Writing Prize 2012. Mechthild Borrmann lives in Bielefeld, where she works as a free-lance author. In 2015, her novel “Der Geiger” was awarded the Readers’ Prize of ELLE/France.