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'The island was singularly without pretension; just a modest chrysalis-shaped piece of undulating pasture, arable and marshland – a place ignored by those who required drama of an obvious kind' Every year Elisabeth Danziger travels to the Danish island of Møn to spend one week at The Tamarisks, a lavish hotel which was once, fifteen years ago in 1945, her family's second home. With each annual visit, Elisabeth stays in the same room and walks familiar paths. She visits the local museum to peer at artefacts that once belonged to her family; she unscrews the panel of an old bath tub to retrieve the crumbling piece of paper on which is written her name and that of Daniel Eberhardt – her beloved cousin. Elisabeth's annual pilgrimage is part of a long-standing family promise to meet again in Møn after their separation during the War. A promise that only she has fulfilled. And she has no reason to suspect this year will be any different from all the others...
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      December 2, 1991
      Once again Elisabeth Danziger has made her annual visit to The Tamarisks, her childhood summer home on the Danish island of Mon. The house has long since been turned into an expensive hotel, but Elisabeth scarcely notices the guests and the changes that have occurred. For 15 years, since WW II ended, she has been coming here to explore the secret hiding places of childhood, run her hands across initials long ago carved in trees and visit the local museum to peer at artifacts that once belonged to her family. Almost as an aside, Taylor ( Swann Song ) reveals that this colorless, unassuming woman is a concentration camp survivor. Her seemingly bizarre actions are in fact part of a carefully planned ritual. As a young woman, Elisabeth fell in love with her cousin, also German and Jewish. Before the Holocaust overtook them, they vowed to be reunited at The Tamarisks one August after the war ended; Elisabeth alone has returned every year to keep the appointment. Taylor's terse, clear prose is always readable, but she is so parsimonious in doling out information about her characters that the tear-jerkingweb climax doesn't have the devastating effect she seems to have intended.

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