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
