THE SILENT WOMAN

A rapturous novel of love, longing, and exile, The Silent Woman depicts a twentieth-century woman's life against a backdrop of war a nd political tumult. Sylva, half Czech and half German, is born into an aristocratic family and lives in a castle outside Prague. Sh e marries a man she doesn't love, and is seduced by the joyful madness of Paris in the twenties as an ambassador's wife. When the Na zis force her to state her loyalty, she capitulates, not realizing how this decision will haunt her the rest of her life. Sylva's st ory is ...[Leer más]