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The Devil Comes to Bonn
The Devil Comes to Bonn
A novel reflecting the #MeToo movement. Historian, Stella encounters an aggressive man at a German heritage conference and unleashes a sinister side of herself, jeopardizing identity, career and family. When she meets Hildegard, at first, she sees no mirror to her own life, after all, Hildegard survived working as a maid to Hitler.
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The Devil Comes to Bonn is available on Amazon in print and eBook formats. It is also in UK bookshops, in Australia, and can be ordered as print on demand in many countries.
Excerpts
Warning black decals of birds dotted the glass walls of the old West German Bundeshaus in Bonn. Eagles shot-up, wings folded over curved bodies, sleek like cannons. Others hurtled earthward, wings arced, piked beaks splitting.
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A seat, it might seem trivial. She was not heroic Rosa Parks in 1955, retaining her Alabama bus seat against a white man and brutal, racist oppression. She was not igniting sparks in the US civil rights movement, but it was her seat and yet another man demanded that a woman move. It seemed an outrageous comparison, but banal, everyday insults could explode into the monumental.
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She walked to the other head; the bearded saint’s view ran sideways, along the cobbles. He could see the sky only by squinting upwards, surely impossible from the pose that the sculptor, Iskender Yediler, had allotted him. He was earth-bound, but faithful to himself. Stella trod carefully around the memorial heads, tracing a protective loop.