

A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself. TV writer/producer Freethy’s debut novel merits a 100,000-copy first printing. Much later, in the 1993 United States, Bettina’s daughter finally decides to discover who her father really was. Jewish architect Max and avant-garde artist Bettina fall in love in Weimar-era Germany, but with the rise of Nazism, Max is sent to Dachau, where his gift for crafting gorgeous porcelain figures protects him from execution. From the mega-best-selling Albom a million-copy first printing.įreethy, Sarah. The narrative unfolds his story along with those of brother Sebastian and schoolmate Fannie, death-camp survivors who later married, and of Graf himself. Thereafter, he conscientiously becomes a liar. In 1940s Greece, guileless 11-year-old Nico Krispi is persuaded by Nazi officer Udo Graf to tell other Jewish residents of his village that it’s safe to board the waiting trains, realizing too late that he’s condemned those he loves, including his own family, to a terrible fate.

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