42. What was the most difficult part of the novel to accept? Did you find the novel offensive in any way?
43. How do you think the child or grandchild of a Holocaust survivor might react to the novel? Would you give this novel to a Jewish friend?
44. Should the author have more openly condemned Eva’s attitudes or Hitler’s actions? If she had taken a more judgmental tone, how would that have altered your own interaction with the story and the life of its characters?
45. What about “stand by your man”? Is there a connection so deep between man and woman that nothing one can do will turn the other against him or her? What do you think about the women who turn in their men after discovering a serious wrongdoing? At what point, if any, can your mate cross a line that forces you to sever the relationship and expose the crime? Or is there no line when it comes to love?
46. Why does Eva sometimes wish Hitler were just an artist with “only colors to capture”?
47. If Hitler as a young man had been accepted as an artist, how might history have been different?
Copyright
Copyright © 2013 by Lavonne Mueller
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Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication
Mueller, Lavonne.
The patient ecstasy of Fräulein Braun : a novel / Lavonne Mueller.— New York : Opus, c2013.
ISBN: 978-1-62316-008-1 (cloth); 978-1-62316-009-8 (epub); 978-1-62316-010-4 (Kindle); 978-1-62316-011-1 (Adobe PDF)
Includes bibliography.
Summary: A disturbing, erotic novel about Hitler seen through the eyes of the woman who worshipped him, set in the claustrophobic and morally twisted underground world of the Führerbunker and the Third Reich’s last gasp.
1. Braun, Eva—Fiction. 2. Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945—Fiction. 3. Germany—History—1933-1945—Fiction. 4. World War, 1939-1945—Germany—Fiction. 5. Statesmen’s spouses—Fiction. 6. Mistresses—Fiction. 7. Man-woman relationships—Fiction. 8. Biographical fiction. 9. Historical fiction. 10. Erotic fiction. 11. Love stories. I. Title.
PS3563.U346 P38 2013
813/.54—dc23 1304
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