This book follows a German family fleeing the Russians along with their Scottish POW, a Jewish ex-prisoner posing as various German soldiers (all of whom he kills before stealing clothes and identities), and a French Jewish woman being marched across Germany, all in the last few months of WWII.
Cons: graphic depictions of violence and sex; deaths of loved characters.
Pros: you don't read many books from the German point-of-view during WWII, and this one felt pretty real--might be b/c the author was inspired to wright the book by the actual diary of a real Prussian woman, written during the same time. I also loved the characters.
Halfway through reading this I discovered that Bohjalian also wrote "Midwives", which I recall LOVING!!! If I could devote more time to reading I'd make a goal to read all of his books, but unfortunately that's not going to happen.
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