Torn Apart - Klier, Jean
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On a winter's night in Czechoslovakia in December 1942 Dieter is born in the family home in Bruex. He is the fifth generation to be living there but his heritage could have dire consequences in the near future. It is a turbulent time of political unrest. His mother Erika, aged nineteen, wants love and happiness without the responsibility of caring for her child. She deserts him when he is two months old, leaving him in the care of her parents. Dieter's father Max is a soldier married to someone else. Max is called back to fight Hitler's battles on the German Front. No one knows his…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
On a winter's night in Czechoslovakia in December 1942 Dieter is born in the family home in Bruex. He is the fifth generation to be living there but his heritage could have dire consequences in the near future. It is a turbulent time of political unrest. His mother Erika, aged nineteen, wants love and happiness without the responsibility of caring for her child. She deserts him when he is two months old, leaving him in the care of her parents. Dieter's father Max is a soldier married to someone else. Max is called back to fight Hitler's battles on the German Front. No one knows his whereabouts.At first Dieter's life is stable while his grandfather and great grandfather keep an ear to the ground to prepare for their escape. What will become of Dieter as the family is torn apart and they must flee their homeland where they have lived for eight centuries? Will he survive the arduous trek over the Erzgebirge at just two years of age? What will the future hold?
Autorenporträt
Jean Klier was born in New Zealand where she lived for the first twenty years of her life. After training as a primary teacher she left New Zealand to teach in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea where she met and married Dieter. Travels to other places followed and they are now retired and living in Albury, New South Wales, Australia with an adorable but nutty dog Peanut. Their three adult children and four grand children are scattered around Australia and New Zealand. Torn Apart is Jean's first novel and is the first in a series of four books.