Diana Gabaldon in her review in the Washington Post called it "historical fiction at its best." Danielle Trussoni in the New York Times called it "harrowing." It's a tale of historical suspense set in 1662 Boston, a story of the first divorce in North America for domestic violence - and a subsequent witch trial. His 2021 novel, HOUR OF THE WITCH, is now on sale as a paperback. Jodi Picoult said, "THE LIONESS feels like the best possible combination of Hemingway and Agatha Christie - a gorgeously written story about the landscape and risks of Africa, whose edge-of-your-seat plot makes it impossible to put down.
Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Booklist all gave it starred reviews. A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood star and her entourage in this riveting historical thriller, about which the New York Times wrote in its spring preview, "Bohjalian steers this runaway Land Rover of a story into some wildly entertaining territory." The paperback of his new novel, THE LIONESS, roars May 2, and is already in development for a limited TV series. His work has been translated into 35 languages and become three movies and an Emmy-nominated TV series. Skillfully portraying the flesh and blood of history, Chris Bohjalian has crafted a rich tapestry that puts a face on one of the twentieth century’s greatest tragedies–while creating, perhaps, a masterpiece that will haunt readers for generations.Ĭhris Bohjalian is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 24 books. Perhaps not since The English Patient has a novel so deftly captured both the power and poignancy of romance and the terror and tragedy of war. Their flight will test both Anna’s and Callum’s love, as well as their friendship with Manfred–assuming any of them even survive. And there is a twenty-six-year-old Wehrmacht corporal, who the pair know as Manfred–who is, in reality, Uri Singer, a Jew from Germany who managed to escape a train bound for Auschwitz.Īs they work their way west, they encounter a countryside ravaged by war.
There is her lover, Callum Finella, a twenty-year-old Scottish prisoner of war who was brought from the stalag to her family’s farm as forced labor. In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from Warsaw to the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lines.Īmong the group is eighteen-year-old Anna Emmerich, the daughter of Prussian aristocrats.
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