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The Undertaking
Summary Audrey Magee’s debut novel, published in 2014, opens with a transaction: two strangers, a German soldier named Peter Faber and a young Berliner named Katharina Spinell, agree to marry by proxy. They have never met. The marriage is a legal arrangement permitted under a wartime Nazi scheme that grants financial benefits to wives and…
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Eleven Hours
Summary Pamela Erens’s third novel, published by Tin House Books in 2016, takes a single setting and holds it for the length of the book. Eleven Hours unfolds entirely in a hospital labor and delivery ward over the course of, as the title announces, eleven hours. The novel follows two women: Lore Atlas, who arrives…
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