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The Prisoner is the much-anticipated sequel to Persephone Books' bestselling title, Crooked Cross by Sally Carson. It is now August 1933, and the deadly fervour of Hitler's Nazi regime continues to spread across Germany. Michael Reader, a young Englishman, decides to visit his friends the Klugers at their home in Bavaria.
Michael's first shock comes when he finds their house empty. After he tracks the family down in Munich, Michael is horrified to see how much their world has changed. Erich and Helmy, the Kluger brothers, are still heavily involved with the Nazi Party. Erich is proud to be ascending the ranks of such a powerful organisation, but Helmy, four years older, is visibly wasting away, racked with guilt, disbelief and sorrow.
After Helmy befriends a young Jewish girl and has a public dispute with a fellow Nazi official, even steadfast Erich begins to fret for Helmy's – and the family's – safety. Moving between different characters and perspectives, The Prisoner recounts the constant struggle of existence and survival in Nazi-era Germany.
The Prisoner is part of the Persephone Audiobook Collection, a series of forgotten classics including neglected fiction and non-fiction by women writers. This novel was first published in 1936 and now includes a publisher's afterword.
The second novel in Sally Carson's trilogy written and set in Nazi Germany. Sylvia Carson (1902-1941), known as Sally, was born in Dorset and spent her early life there. She had two sisters and the family was brought up by their widowed mother. Carson worked as a dance teacher and a publisher's reader. She regularly holidayed in Bavaria, where Crooked Cross and The Prisoner are set. Crooked Cross is the first in the trilogy, and was adapted for the stage, with performances in Birmingham (1935) and London (1937). In 1938 she married publisher Eric Humphries, and they had three children. She died aged 38 of breast cancer. A novel of unusual power and poignant interest which illustrates the tragic divisions in families This is certainly the finest novel on modern Germany I have read. Its restraint scorches the imagination and leaves the conviction behind that Miss Carson is writing of what she knows Sally Carson, who gave us such a vivid picture of Germany inside her clever book Crooked Cross has given her readers another wonderful story showing the terrible crisis through which the German nation is passing today [...]
Michael's first shock comes when he finds their house empty. After he tracks the family down in Munich, Michael is horrified to see how much their world has changed. Erich and Helmy, the Kluger brothers, are still heavily involved with the Nazi Party. Erich is proud to be ascending the ranks of such a powerful organisation, but Helmy, four years older, is visibly wasting away, racked with guilt, disbelief and sorrow.
After Helmy befriends a young Jewish girl and has a public dispute with a fellow Nazi official, even steadfast Erich begins to fret for Helmy's – and the family's – safety. Moving between different characters and perspectives, The Prisoner recounts the constant struggle of existence and survival in Nazi-era Germany.
The Prisoner is part of the Persephone Audiobook Collection, a series of forgotten classics including neglected fiction and non-fiction by women writers. This novel was first published in 1936 and now includes a publisher's afterword.
The second novel in Sally Carson's trilogy written and set in Nazi Germany. Sylvia Carson (1902-1941), known as Sally, was born in Dorset and spent her early life there. She had two sisters and the family was brought up by their widowed mother. Carson worked as a dance teacher and a publisher's reader. She regularly holidayed in Bavaria, where Crooked Cross and The Prisoner are set. Crooked Cross is the first in the trilogy, and was adapted for the stage, with performances in Birmingham (1935) and London (1937). In 1938 she married publisher Eric Humphries, and they had three children. She died aged 38 of breast cancer. A novel of unusual power and poignant interest which illustrates the tragic divisions in families This is certainly the finest novel on modern Germany I have read. Its restraint scorches the imagination and leaves the conviction behind that Miss Carson is writing of what she knows Sally Carson, who gave us such a vivid picture of Germany inside her clever book Crooked Cross has given her readers another wonderful story showing the terrible crisis through which the German nation is passing today [...]