# The Moment

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- Book: [The Moment](https://www.bookquiver.com/douglas-kennedy/the-moment) ([The Moment.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/douglas-kennedy/the-moment.md))
- Authors: [Douglas Kennedy](https://www.bookquiver.com/douglas-kennedy)
- Publisher: cornerstone_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0902-149-0
- Published: 2011-04-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

A secret from the past can change your life for ever. A heart-breaking love story set in Cold War Berlin by the author of The Pursuit of Happiness and Five Days . Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced American writer living a very private life in Maine. Until, one wintry morning, his solitude is disrupted by the arrival of a package postmarked Berlin. But what is more unsettling is the name accompanying the return address on the package: Petra Dussmann. For she is the woman with whom Thomas had an intense love affair twenty-five years before in a divided Berlin, where people lived fearfully under the shadows of the Cold War. And so Thomas is forced to grapple with a past he has always kept hidden. For Petra Dussman was a refugee from the police state of East Germany. And her tragic secrets were to re-write both their destinies.