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Aimee & Jaguar
Aimee & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943 | Erica Fischer
Berlin 1942. Lilly Wust, twenty-nine, married, four children, led a life as did millions of German women. But then she met the twenty-one-year-old Felice Schragenheim. It was love almost at first sight. Aime (Lilly) and Jaguar (Felice) started forging plans for the future. They composed poems and love letters to each other, and wrote their own marriage contract. When Jaguar admitted to her lover that she was Jewish, this dangerous secret drew the two women even closer to each other. But their luck didn't last. On August 21, 1944, Jaguar was arrested and deported. At the age of eighty, Lilly Wust told her story to Erica Fischer, who turned it into a poignant testimony. After the book appeared in 1994 she was contacted by additional contemporaries of Aime and Jaguar who offered new material that has been integrated into the present edition. The book, translated into twenty languages, and the film based on itdirected by Max Frberbck, with Juliane Khler and Maria Schrader in the leading roleshave made Aime and Jaguar's story known around the world.
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Based on true events this love story between the wife of Nazi officer and Jewish girl is quite extraordinary. What I found very interesting are two things: construction of it - combination of real letters, poems between Aimee & Jaguar (Felice Schragenheim), dialogues which are built from the interviews with the Elisabeth/Lilly/Aimee Wust, and the second - depiction of the war. At the beginning WW II is almost just the backdrop for the love part 👇

Simona .... of the story and the nearer at the end of the book, and the war we are, the more devastations of the events comes to the foreground. Of course, story is sad, but author succeeded to escape from overbearing sentimentality and she left to the story to speak for itself. 6y
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Simona
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Second library book haul of the year❣️

Erica Fischer, Aimee&Jaguar
Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet
J.C. Oates, Black Water
Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower

Emilymdxn Really interested to see what you think of tipping the velvet! One of my favourite books when I was a teenager but idk if I‘d like it if I read it now 6y
Simona @Emilymdxn I‘m only few chapters in, and I‘m not sure that this is the book for me ... 6y
Emilymdxn That‘s interesting to hear. I don‘t think I‘d like it if I read it now, it was very much what I needed as a 15 year old with lower standards now who‘d read anything with a female-female love story, but remembering it now I definitely don‘t think it was that good 6y
Simona @Emilymdxn My problem, for now, is to much sugar in the prose ... 6y
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ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled
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True story of two women in love in Berlin in 1943. One, a mother of four married to a Nazi officer, the other a Jew. I had a hundred questions just reading the jacket copy. Can't wait to start this one! #lastbookyoustacked #seasonsreadings2016

Zelma I didn't realize this was a book. It is a great movie. 8y
ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled @Zelma Oh! A movie! Excellent!! 8y
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