The Last Embrace. Pam Jenoff

       Praise for

       Pam Jenoff

      ‘This love story will melt you.’

      —Company magazine on The Ambassador’s Daughter

      ‘This is historical romance at its finest.’

      —Publishers Weekly on Kommandant’s Girl

      ‘In her moving first novel, Jenoff offers an insightful portrait of people forced into an untenable situation and succeeds in humanising the unfathomable as well as the heroic.’

      —Booklist on Kommandant’s Girl

      ‘Poignant and intense’

      —Good Book Guide on The Diplomat’s Wife

      ‘Jenoff explores the immediate aftermath of World War II with sensitivity and compassion, shedding light on an often overlooked era of European history. She expertly draws out the tension and illustrates the danger and poverty of Eastern Europe as it falls under communism. Highly recommended for all fiction collections.’

      —Library Journal on The Diplomat’s Wife

      ‘… well constructed and a real page-turner’

      —Birmingham Jewish Weekly on The Diplomat’s Wife

      PAM JENOFF is the author of several novels, including the international bestseller Kommandant’s Girl, which also earned her a Quill Award nomination. Along with a bachelor degree in International Affairs from George Washington University and a master’s degree in History from Cambridge, she received her Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania and previously served as a Foreign Service Officer for the US State Department in Europe, as the Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Army at the Pentagon and as a practising attorney. Pam lives with her husband and three children near Philadelphia where, in addition to writing, she teaches law school.

      Visit Pam at www.pamjenoff.com

      The Last Embrace

      Pam Jenoff

      

      For my own brother, Jay

      Contents

       Cover

Praise

       About the Author

       Title Page

       Dedication

PROLOGUE

PART ONE

ONE

TWO

THREE

FOUR

FIVE

SIX

       SEVEN

       EIGHT

       NINE

       PART TWO

       TEN

       ELEVEN

       TWELVE

       THIRTEEN

       FOURTEEN

       FIFTEEN

       SIXTEEN

       SEVENTEEN

       EIGHTEEN

       NINETEEN

       TWENTY

       TWENTY-ONE

       TWENTY-TWO

       PART THREE

       TWENTY-THREE

       TWENTY-FOUR

       TWENTY-FIVE

       TWENTY-SIX

       TWENTY-SEVEN

       TWENTY-EIGHT

       EPILOGUE

       ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

       Reader’s Guide for The Last Embrace

       QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

       Endpages

       Copyright