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SUMMARY:Author Reading in English: Heather Clark\, The Scrapbook
DESCRIPTION:The traumas of the past and the aftershocks of fascism echo and
  reverberate through the present in this story of a life-changing seductio
 n.\n\nHarvard\, 1996. Anna is about to graduate when she falls hard for Ch
 ristoph\, a visiting German student. Captivated by his beauty and intellig
 ence\, she follows him to Germany\, where charming squares and grand facad
 es belie the nation’s recent history and the war’s destruction. Christ
 oph condemns his country’s actions but remains cryptic about the part hi
 s own grandfather played. Anna\, meanwhile\, cannot forget the photos take
 n by her American GI grandfather at the end of the war\, preserved in a sc
 rapbook only she has seen.\n\nAs Anna travels back and forth to Germany to
  deepen her relationship with the elusive Christoph\, her perspective is p
 owerfully interrupted by chapters that follow both of their grandfathers d
 uring the war. One witnesses the plight of Holocaust victims in the days a
 fter liberation and helps capture Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest\, while the ot
 her fights for Nazi Germany. Their fragmented stories haunt Anna and her l
 over two generations later—and may still tear them apart.\n\nNot a “Wo
 rld War Two novel” in the traditional sense\, The Scrapbook delivers a c
 onsuming tale of first love\, laced with a backstory of dark family legaci
 es and historical conscience.\n\nThe Scrapbook was a New Yorker Best Book 
 of 2025 and has been profiled in the New York Times.\n\nHEATHER CLARK is t
 he author of five books\, most recently\, The Scrapbook\, which was named 
 a Best Book of 2025 by The New Yorker\, Literary Hub\, and the Irish Exami
 ner\, and named a Best Summer Read by the Boston Globe\, the LA Times\, th
 e Washington Post\, and People. She is also the author of Red Comet: The S
 hort Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath\, a finalist for the Pulitzer Pr
 ize in Biography\, and one of the New York Times’ Ten Best Books of 2021
 . Her recent awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a New York Public Li
 brary Cullman Center Fellowship\, and the Truman Capote Award for Literary
  Criticism. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Boston Globe
 \, The Times Literary Supplement\, Harvard Review\, Time\, Air Mail\, Lite
 rary Hub\, Literary Review\, Poetry\, and elsewhere. She teaches at Columb
 ia University.
CATEGORIES:Lesung
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