The Two Marias

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER</em> ● From the bestselling author of <em>New Day Dawning </em>comes a touching novella of the unrelenting force of love the power of healing and the invincible desire to dream ● Inspired by the lives of two World War II survivors</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In their early teens two girls were forced to sit next to each other in school. Although they were complete opposites−one a social butterfly and the other a withdrawn bookworm−they soon realized that they shared similar hopes and dreams. Over time against all expectations they became best friends.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Until the war broke out.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now each was thrown into opposite sides of the conflict. And mistakes were made−unforgivable mistakes that would shape both their futures.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>How could their friendship endure?</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>BASED ON A REMARKABLE TRUE STORY with an appendix including authentic WWII photographs and documents.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Wonderful... A wry sharply observed tale of both heroism and coming-of-age-story during one of the darkest times in humanity.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Compulsively readable... In this 200-page novella Kiss proves to be yet again a distinctively contemporary literary voice.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Biting brilliant exploration of a female friendship. And though </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Two Marias </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>focuses on young women readers need be neither young nor female in order to enjoy it...</span></p>