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A lily of the field

Title:

A lily of the field

Author:

Lawton, John, 1949-

Personal Author:

Lawton, John, 1949-

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2010]

Physical Description:

381 pages ; 24 cm

Summary:

A novel set before, during, and after World War II follows the loosely parallel lives of an Austrian cellist, Meret Voytek, whose orchestra becomes part of the Hitler Youth, and Hungarian physist Karel Szabo, who is recruited by the Americans to help build the atomic bomb.

Language:

English

Subject Term:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.

Cellists -- Fiction.

Physicists -- Fiction.

Murder -- Fiction.

Violoncellists -- Fiction.

Homicide -- Fiction.

Genre:

Historical fiction.

Detective and mystery fiction.