The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman With an introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

<p><font>'Magnificent. Complex, wise, unsentimental and very moving' <br><b>Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie<br></b><br>'Dense, lyrical and deeply unsettling' <br><i><b>New York Times<br></b></i><br>'A fine balance between poetic tenderness and an unflinching account of the brutal realities of the day' <br><i><b>Guardian</b><br></i><br>'Extraordinarily original' <br><i><b>Los Angeles Times<br></b></i><br>'The prose is stunning, thanks to a masterful translation by Klara Glowczewska, and the characters are so fully fleshed that they seem to step off the page' <br><i><b>NPR</b><br></i><br>'Grips the reader with the power of a high-class thriller' <br><i><b>Frankfurter Rundschau</b></i> <br><br>'<i>All at once she thought that a life is only that which has passed. There is no life other than memory</i>'</font> <br><br>In the Nazi-occupied Warsaw of 1943, Irma Seidenman, a young Jewish widow, possesses two attributes that can spell the difference between life and death: blue eyes and blond hair. Paired with false papers, she passes as the wife of a Polish officer, until one day an informer spots her on the street.<br><br>At times a dark lament, at others a sly and sardonic thriller, <i>The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman</i> is the story of the thirty-six hours that follow Irma's arrest and the events that lead to her dramatic rescue.</p>