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Book 1. A Time to Live and a Time to Die
Republication of the novel as a separate book
An anti-war novel that is more relevant than ever
1944. The war is coming to an end. Private Ernst Greber returns home from the Eastern Front on leave. But his hometown is destroyed by bombing. While looking for his parents, Ernst meets Elisabeth... They don't have much time. But the few days they spend together can hold a lifetime. All their short lives and a great love that has no future... When the whole world is falling apart, when someone decides for you that now is the time to die, you want to live so much...
Book 2. City of Girls
"City of Girls" is the new bestseller by Elizabeth Gilbert, who conquered the world with her novels Eat, Pray, Love and The Nature of All Things.
This is an intriguing novel about female sexuality and freedom, about the courage to be yourself and the right to live the way you want. It is also a story of a very unusual love, shadowed by the war, and true friendship, which is not easy to find, understand and appreciate, especially in a city as complex and volatile as New York City.
The novel "City of Girls" begins in 1940, when nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris is expelled from a prestigious college. Her parents send their daughter to Manhattan to live with her aunt, who owns a small but very eccentric theatre. Unexpectedly, Vivian finds herself in a real whirlpool of pre-war bohemian life. Meetings with stars, unusual theatrical performances, unrestrained sex, rivers of alcohol and a feeling of complete freedom first fascinate and seduce her, and then knock the ground out from under her feet. And this is just the beginning of Vivian's lifelong journey to realise that you don't have to be a good girl to be a good person.
