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The Puzzle Women (2020)

di Anna Ellory

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Berlin, 1989. Siblings Rune and Lotte are shaken awake by Mama and told to follow her quietly into the night. Last time they snuck away from Papa, with Mama bruised and broken, they were back within a week. But this time they are starting a new life, Mama says--where nobody can ever hurt them again. Ten years later, the memories of their escape are blurry; Mama is long gone and the siblings are back at Papa's house. But when they receive a mysterious notebook that seems to have come from Mama, Papa tears it apart. Could there be more to their past than they've been led to believe? With Rune paralysed by fear, Lotte takes their fate into her own hands. When she learns about the 'Puzzle Women' working tirelessly to reconstruct files shredded by the former secret police, she begs them to help her piece Mama's story back together. But as Papa's threats against both siblings escalate, can they unite to learn the full, brutal truth in Mama's own words at last?… (altro)
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Trigger warning: this book depicts extreme emotional and physical abuse. The Puzzle Women was a difficult read for me and I recommend it with reservation because of the subject matter..
The title refers to a real group dedicated to reassembling shredded files of the Stasi secret police agency in the German Democratic Republic from 1950-1990. In the book they are instrumental in piecing together a fractured family. It is set in dual time periods, around the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and ten years later..
The book is beautifully written, the first-person voice of each major character (Rune, Lotte, and Mama) is compelling, and the audio narrator is exceptional. ( )
  seasidereader | May 12, 2022 |
Dit was een van de weinige keren dat ik op een persoon in een boek heb zitten schelden. Ik was zo gefrustreerd door wat er gebeurde dat ik echt kwaad was.
Het verhaal speelt zich af in Berlijn en in Neurenberg in 1989 en 1999. Rune (10) en Lotte (5) zijn broer en zus. Thuis is het niet veilig door hun vader. Als hun moeder hen in 1989 het huis uit smokkelt, gaan ze naar een opvanghuis ver weg van hun vader. De vader is een machtig man bij de politie en hun moeder heeft geen schijn van kans als ze naar de politie gaat om aangifte tegen haar man te doen.
In 1999 wonen Lotte en Rune alleen met hun vader en zijn nieuwe vrouw. Lotte krijgt op een dag een pakje met daarin een dagboek geschreven door hun moeder dat onmiddellijk door vader wordt verscheurd. Als ze op de radio hoort dat er in Neurenberg een aantal mensen zijn die proberen om verscheurde documenten van de Stasi weer in elkaar te zetten. Ze worden 'De puzzelvrouwen, genoemd. Lotte besluit om met de verscheurde stukken van het dagboek naar Neurenberg te reizen om die daar weer in elkaar te laten zetten. De vrouwen zijn aardig voor Lotte en proberen haar te helpen in hun vrije tijd en langzaam ontstaat het verhaal van wat er allemaal is gebeurd.

Ik vond dit echt een hartverscheurend mooi verhaal. Het is ook goed, en af en toe prachtig, geschreven. ( )
  connie53 | Feb 9, 2022 |
Have you had that experience where you begin reading a book, and it's not bad, but you're still withholding judgement—and then, about 10% of the way in, you realize you're reading something exceptional, and you know you'll be staying up until you've read every last word of it? I had that experience reading Anna Ellory's The Puzzle Women.

I don't want to say too much about this title because it was so wonderful to dive into it without preconceptions or expectations. Let me just say that it's about family, the ways they do/don't fail one another, and the lengths to which they will go to protect one another; it's also about hope and resilience. The Puzzle Women is set in two time periods: during the fall of the Berlin Wall and in the present day as the "Puzzle Women" work to reconstruct documents from the thousands of bags of shredded papers left behind by the Stasi when East and West Berlin were reunited.

The publisher's blurb for the book oversimplifies the narrative and doesn't do it justice. Ignore the blurb. Don't read a ton of reviews. Just pick this title up as soon as you can and read!

I received a free electronic ARC of this title from the publisher via NetGally for review purposes. The opinions are my own. ( )
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Berlin, 1989. Siblings Rune and Lotte are shaken awake by Mama and told to follow her quietly into the night. Last time they snuck away from Papa, with Mama bruised and broken, they were back within a week. But this time they are starting a new life, Mama says--where nobody can ever hurt them again. Ten years later, the memories of their escape are blurry; Mama is long gone and the siblings are back at Papa's house. But when they receive a mysterious notebook that seems to have come from Mama, Papa tears it apart. Could there be more to their past than they've been led to believe? With Rune paralysed by fear, Lotte takes their fate into her own hands. When she learns about the 'Puzzle Women' working tirelessly to reconstruct files shredded by the former secret police, she begs them to help her piece Mama's story back together. But as Papa's threats against both siblings escalate, can they unite to learn the full, brutal truth in Mama's own words at last?

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