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“In The Dutch Wife, Ellen Keith illuminates an important but little known piece of history from World War II: the concentration camp brothels. Keith’s portrayal of Marijke’s courageous yet unfathomable choice is sensitive, graceful and unflinching – and in itself brave. Readers of The Nightingale will be rewarded by this original and unforgettable tale.” —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan’s Tale“I’m so impressed by the ambition and bravery of this novel. It confronts the very central ethical concerns and questions about what it is to be human in the world today, what good and evil are, what can be forgiven and what cannot. Literature at its very best tasks itself with these questions, and The Dutch Wife places itself in that noble tradition.” —Annabel Lyon, author of The Sweet Girl
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About the Author
ELLEN KEITH is a Canadian writer and graduate of the University of British Columbia's MFA program in creative writing. Her work has appeared in publications such as The New Quarterly and the Globe and Mail, and she has received the Anton Fiction Prize and the James Patrick Folinsbee Memorial Scholarship in Creative Writing. She lives in Amsterdam. The Dutch Wife is her first novel.
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Product details
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Park Row; Original edition (September 4, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0778369765
ISBN-13: 978-0778369769
Product Dimensions:
6 x 1 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 13.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
3.8 out of 5 stars
83 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#46,501 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I really enjoyed this book.It is historical fiction starting during the Second World War.Lovely story about young married couple from Amsterdam , they got separated and send to different war camps.The interesting account of relationships between German officer and Marijke is an eye opener , the difficulty to survive and consequences of our decisions are well presented,emotionally and psychologically very engaging book.
This book is one of very few that I will not be passing along to a friend. While I appreciate the fictionalized reality this book chronicles, I found all the graphic images of torture horrifying and unsettling to a degree that made reading this book a chore. I read it through to try to understand the rave reviews it received. Obviously what those reviewers saw escaped me. While I found the story line of Karl and Marjke sufficiently interesting to finish the book to find out what happened to them, the horror suffered by Luciano was far too graphic for me. I found the jumps to his story disorienting and unhelpful and the ending trite. One reviewer compared this book to "The Nightingale" (which I thoroughly enjoyed) - let me end by saying I fail to see any similarities outside of the two books being set in the same time period.
A fascinating story, I learned quite a lot of facts that I was unaware of prior to reading this book.Very moving portal of characters and how war allows people to do things that they would not do in normal times.
Ellen Keith has written an excellent researched first novel about brothels in the Nazi concentration camps. In this book the brothel the book is centered around is the Buchenwald prisoner brothel for prominent and non-Jewish prisoners. The characters are well developed and this book is a page turner.I loved The Dutch Wife. I have been interested in the KZ brothels for a long time and believe this book belongs in the same category as The House of Dolls by Ka-Tzetnik 135633 and Lovely Green Eyes by Arnost Lustig.Ellen, thanks for writing this book about one facet of women's experiences during the Holocaust. It is finally time people learn about those women. Your novel will be and is an incredible teaching tool. People will now learn of the ordeals and atrocities these women had to endure. Their story was long suppressed and not even discussed by the women chosen as camp brothel workers (Joy Division aka Feldhuren). Shame weighed on them after liberation.
Another great World War II story. This is about a couple, married, joined the Resistance movement, non Jewish, arrested and sent to one of the many concentration camps for the duration of war. A very well written book. I like the way Ellen Keith writes. 🤗🤗
The cover says “readers of the Nightingdale will be rewarded...†- no. The book did not at all deliver as The Nightingdale did, although I felt it tried to find strong inspiration in The Nightingdale’s structure and story of hardship, love, courage and hope. I found Luciano’s storyline too distracting, too violent and unnecessary. At the end we see a connection but it’s too late. It could have been a sequel, a book on itself. It did not belong inside “The Dutch Wifeâ€. I kept on reading hoping to get more out of the book. The different perspectives of Karl and Marijke telling the same story/situation were annoying. Repetition slows down the momentum of the story. Not good. I was hoping so badly to see Marijke as a stronger, bolder, WW2 “Hero-Womanâ€...I have been spoiled by other books, I guess, filled with these powerful women in World War 2. My personal wish was for Marijke to have been a true “badass†disruptor, but she was “just thereâ€... A bit disappointing. I expected more.
I received a copy of this book through an author giveaway in exchange for my honest review.SPOILER ALERT: The rating is a 3 instead of a 2 simply because the writing is good. Unfortunately many things about "The Dutch Wife" did not work for me.I do not care for the literary device of having the setting of the novel moving back and forth between time periods, a personal preference, so keep that in mind. If I had realized from the synopsis this particular device was used, I probably wouldn't have entered the give away. Strangely, however, I ended up more intrigued by the storyline in Argentina even though I was hoping for a book set in Europe during WWII. And the tenuous link between the two stories leaves me thinking that the author might have been better off tackling the two different subjects (atrocities, really) in separate novels.I'm also getting a little sick of novels which depict women forced into sexual servitude and falling in love with their captor. I guess I should be grateful the main female character is not a Jewish girl falling for an SS officer. (And, yes, that's been done, to my dismay.) At least Marijke didn't end up with the Nazi. Of course, this leads to a completely unrealistic ending where she miraculously ends up with her husband. And aside from this dubious ending there were really no uplifting moments in the entire book.Is Luciano's fate supposed to be poetic justice? Because it doesn't work for me, him paying the price for his father's sins. And why kill Karl/Wagner at the end? Better he live with the agony of not knowing what's become of his son. Maybe the part where he does nothing to help as Luciano is arrested is supposed to mirror the way he failed to help Marijke near the end. As if the reader doesn't realize most SS officers were horrible people and cowards.No books on the subject of the Holocaust are easy to read, but some are worth the mental anguish. Consider checking out "Anya" by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer or "Heavy Sands" by Anatoli Rybakov. Also a wonderful portrayal of a similar subject, a woman forced into a Nazi brothel in order to survive, is depicted in a series by Bodie and Brock Thoene. (I'm unable to remember which series at the moment, but will update this review if I figure it out.)In conclusion, although "The Dutch Wife" was a little disappointing for me, I would consider reading another book by Ellen Keith simply because she writes well.
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