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Cesare

A Tale of War-Torn Berlin

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Cesare

By: Jerome Charyn
Narrated by: David Colacci
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On a windy night in 1937, a 17-year-old German naval sub-cadet is wandering along the seawall when he stumbles upon a gang of ruffians beating up a tramp, whose life he saves. The man is none other than spymaster Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the Abwehr, German military intelligence. Canaris adopts the young man and dubs him "Cesare" after the character in the silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari for his ability to break through any barrier as he eliminates the Abwehr's enemies.

Canaris is a man of contradictions who, while serving the regime, seeks to undermine the Nazis and helps Cesare hide Berlin's Jews from the Gestapo. But the Nazis will lure many to Theresienstadt, a phony paradise in Czechoslovakia with sham restaurants, novelty shops, and bakeries, a cruel ghetto and way station to Auschwitz. When the woman Cesare loves, a member of the Jewish underground, is captured and sent there, Cesare must find a way to rescue her.

Cesare is a literary thriller and a love story born of the horrors of a country whose culture has died, whose history has been warped, and whose soul has disappeared.

©2020 Jerome Charyn (P)2020 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books 20th Century Biographical Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Jewish Literary Fiction World Literature Biography Military War

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This is a rather strange & melancholy story set mostly during the war & in particular the holocaust with flashbacks to the decades leading up to it. Hard to describe but I did very much enjoy it.

Strange, tragic & beautiful

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I can't say I did not enjoy this, but it was weird in every possible way. The relationships were weird, the people were weird and frankly, while set with historical figures, events and loctions...virtually all of the primary carachters actions were completely implausible.

Strange in so many ways, and just got stranger.

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