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About the Book

It is Christmas Eve 1932, and the Kluger family are celebrating at home. Their only daughter Lexa is excited about her upcoming summer wedding to Moritz Weissmann, a promising young doctor. Lexa has many admirers, but her heart belongs to Moritz, who is initially welcomed by her parents and two brothers, Helmy and Erich. As the year progresses, Lexa enjoys skiing, swimming and going to parties with Moritz and her friends. But little by little Moritz is excluded from the pool, the library, and eventually his own home. As support for the Nazi Party grows rapidly across the country, Lexa's own brothers, now fervent members of the Nazi Youth, turn against Moritz. Under immense pressure and desperate to be together, Lexa and Moritz have to meet in secret. By midsummer, the once close-knit Kluger family are now fractured by irreconcilable beliefs and differing loyalties. When legislation strips the town's Jewish citizens of their rights and their livelihoods, Lexa remains steadfast in her determination to stay true to Moritz. First published in 1934, Crooked Cross describes, through the eyes of one ordinary family, the Nazis' growth in power between December 1932 and June 1933. An extraordinarily prescient novel, it was praised extensively on first publication. But with the outbreak of war, and Sally Carson's death in 1941, her work was forgotten - until now.

Table of Contents:
Preface

CHRISTMAS EVE 1932
Chapter One

PART 1: NEW YEAR 1933
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five

PART II: SPRING 1933
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten

PART III: EARLY SUMMER 1933
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen

PART IV: MIDSUMMER 1933
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen

MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S EVE 1933
Chapter Eighteen

About the Author :
Sally Carson (1901-1941) came from Dorset, and spent her youthful holidays in Bavaria, where she got to know the Germany she portrays so well in her novels. She worked as a dance teacher and publisher's reader, then married a Bradford publisher, became a mother, and wrote the trilogy of which Crooked Cross is the first volume. Her books met with immediate success, but her career was cut short by the war she so clearly saw coming, and by her untimely death from breast cancer.

Review :
Remarkable... The resonances with today are impossible to overlook. Would that we all had Carson's insight and her moral clarity Plangent, prophetic... Carson's skill is to portray all of the [characters] as rounded human beings With the book's rediscovery, Carson is restored to her place among other Anglosphere authors who observed from up close the dawning of the Nazi era, including Kay Boyle...and Christopher Isherwood... For modern-day readers, the novel is more than merely a historical curiosity A very good novel A book everyone should read - and remember


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781805680888
  • Publisher: Pushkin Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Pushkin Press
  • Height: 193 mm
  • No of Pages: 384
  • Width: 138 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1805680889
  • Publisher Date: 06 Oct 2026
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y


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