An engrossing novel inspired by the mysterious true story of Irmgard Keun, a female Novelist who defied all the rules during Berlin\'s volcanic post-WWI years, as a young German writer exiled for her ideas flees her country and her Nazi-supporting husband, fighting for her art, her life, and her child.
With her books blacklisted, her life in danger, and Europe descending into war, Niki travels to Amsterdam, joins the Dutch Resistance, and then returns to war-torn Berlin determined to claim freedom for herself and her child, and to write her own story at last..
Though she succeeds in escaping Rickard, he directs Hitler\'s Brownshirts to do the unthinkable: kidnap their daughter.
The Nazis are cementing their power over Germany--and over her husband.
But Niki knows she cannot stay anonymous for long.
Niki\'s first novel, The Berlin Woman , is published under a pseudonym to great success.
When Rickard succumbs to increasing pressure from the Nazis to make propaganda movies, a horrified Niki turns away from her own film aspirations and instead, begins to write.
Her marriage to Rickard Länger, a movie producer for Berlin\'s Passport Pictures, seems convenient for them both.
Even a woman as resourceful and intelligent as Niki Rittenhaus needs alliances in order to survive. 1920s Germany: Though the world has changed in the wake of the Great War, it is still ruled by men.
An engrossing novel inspired by the mysterious true story of Irmgard Keun, a female Novelist who defied all the rules during Berlin\'s volcanic post-WWI years, as a young German writer exiled for her ideas flees her country and her Nazi-supporting husband, fighting for her art, her life, and her child
