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Motherland by Maria Hummel is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Motherland about?

This “haunting” family saga set in WWII Germany “illuminates the reality of war away from the frontlines... with a compassion and depth of understanding that will touch your heart” (People). Inspired by the author's extended family and their status as Mitläufer—Germans who ‘went along'with Nazism, reaping its benefits and later paying the consequences Inspired by the stories told by her father about his German childhood and letters between her grandparents that were hidden in an attic wall for fifty years, Motherland is a novel that attempts to reckon with the paradox of the author's father—a product of her grandparents'fiercely protective love—and their status as passive Nazi–sympathizers known as Mitläufer. At the center of Motherland lies the Kappus family: Frank is a reconstructive surgeon who lost his beloved wife in childbirth. Two months later, just before being drafted into medical military service, Frank marries a young woman charged with looking after the surviving baby and his two grieving sons. Alone in the house, Liesl attempts to keep the children fed with dwindling food supplies, safe from the constant Allied air attacks and the tides of desperate refugees flooding t

Who reads Motherland?

Author

Maria Hummel

Publisher

Counterpoint Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781619023543

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.76 / 5 (1,590 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14