Return to Berlin / Ellen Feldman.

"A woman haunted by the past finds love and hope in a city shattered by war."-- On cover.

"Guaranted Read : Love it or your money back"--On cover.

Includes reading group questions, further sources and interview with author in unnumbered pages at end of work.

Originally published as The living and the lost: U.S. : St. Martin's Griffin, 2021.

Young Meike 'Millie' Mosbach and her brother David escape Berlin just before the horror of Kristallnacht, leaving their parents and little sister to follow them to America. But their family never arrives. Haunted by their loss, after the war they return to a shattered city, hoping against hope to find their family. Postwar Berlin is a wild west where drunken sailors brawl, spies ply their trade and 'werewolves' - unrepentant Nazis - scheme to rise again. Consumed with rage at her former country, Millie's job for the army rooting out Nazis from regaining a voice in publishing seems the perfect outlet. But her anger begins to thaw as she is faced with the reality of what the war has done to everyone, and the enigmatic Major Harry Sutton, who seems too eager to be fair to the Germans and far too perceptive about Millie. In the rubble of postwar Berlin, Millie is forced to confront a devastating secret and find the courage to embrace love - and a new beginning.