By A. N. Wilson
Publish 12 months note: First released August sixteenth 2007
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Winnie and Wolf is the tale of the amazing dating among Winifred Wagner and Adolf Hitler that took place during the years among the 1st and moment global Wars, as visible throughout the eyes of the secretary at Wahnfried, the Wagner residence in Bayreuth.
Winifred, an English woman, was once pointed out in an orphanage and married on the age of eighteen to the son of Germany’s so much arguable genius. She is a passionate Germanophile, a Wagnerian dreamer and a Teutonic patriot. within the debacle of the post-Versailles international, the Wagner kin hopes for the arriving of a Parsifal, a mystic idealist and redeemer. In 1923, they meet their Parsifal—a wild-eyed Viennese opera enthusiast named Adolf Hitler. He has already made a reputation for himself in a few sections of German society via rabble-rousing and street-corner speeches. it really is Winifred, notwithstanding, who really believes in him. either have identified the humiliation of poverty and a deep anger on the society that excluded them. either locate in one another an strange kinship that starts off with a fondness for opera, and shortly the 2 strike up an intimate friendship: she is Winnie, and he's Wolf.
In A. N. Wilson’s boldest and so much bold novel but, the realm of the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany is brilliantly recreated, and varieties the backdrop to this exceptional bond, which eventually unearths the extraordinary potential of people to mislead themselves.
Literary Awards
Man Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2007)
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