Beyond the plots themselves, sometimes it seems as if the novelistic spirit of rethinking the historical with the necessary feminist point of view, is busy in common settings. From Maria Dueñas but also Anne jacobs and many other authors point to female protagonists with roles around sewing, looms and other performances. Yes, that was what women had to do on many occasions, but starting from stereotypes, the matter tends to be more romantic than a vision of epic overcoming.
I am referring of course to best-selling genres, nothing to do with other types of proposals that vindicate the feminine from biographical perspectives. Or even works of fiction like those of Carmen korn that, even participating in best-selling trends, are traditional but reinventing women and aiming for freedoms and always different horizons.
And therein lies Korn's charm as an author of entertaining, accessible novels with their intense and relatable plots. An author capable of rethinking the scenarios of women as protagonists not only of the essential plot point but also of her destiny.
Top 3 Recommended Novels by Carmen Korn
When the world was young
The postwar period is the perfect setting for those survival heroics where the traits of the most plausible humanity between adversity and hardship are really appreciated. A choral novel that broadens the vision of Europe behind the shadows of Nazism.
January 1, 1950: the war has been left behind giving way to increasing prosperity. Cologne, Hamburg and San Remo will be the three stages in which Gerda, Margarethe and Elisabeth, three friendly families with different destinies, will resume their lives after the Second World War.
A new time in which they will have to face very different situations: Gerda and her husband will have to carry out their art gallery after being looted by the Nazis. Elisabeth and her husband will face the non-return of their son-in-law from the war. And Margarethe, who emigrated to Italy with her family in search of a better future.
A captivating story of three families during the difficult postwar decade that we will follow in their celebrations, new loves, secrets and challenges, seeking that happiness does not disappear forever.
Daughters of a new era
The first part of a saga that broke into Germany and is replicated in many other countries, finding readers in search of exciting plots between the romantic and the epic.
Hamburg, 1919. The First World War is behind us and the city is waking up. Henny and Käthe, friends since childhood, dream of becoming midwives and have just started their training at the hospital. Henny is tired of living in the shadow of her mother, and Käthe, more rebellious and of communist ideas, is in love with a young poet. Two other women will cross their paths: Ida, rich and spoiled, and Lina, a young teacher.
Despite their differences, they become inseparable friends; Together they grow up and face the blows and joys of fate, and together they will also witness the transformation of the world, the end of freedoms and the terrible Nazi threat. Large and small events that will be united, forever, by the thread of friendship.
Daughters of a new era is the first installment of an exciting saga about freedom, love and courage that, through a generation of women who did not allow themselves to be carried away by the circumstances in which they lived, tells us the fascinating story of the century XX.
The four friends
The end of the "Daughters of a new era" saga that leads us through much of the XNUMXth century from the vision and experiences of four women who flood what happened for decades in a Europe turned into a powder keg and subsequent wars with a novel feminist vision cold.
Hamburg, 1970. Henny celebrates her birthday surrounded by her family and her inseparable friends. The thread of complicity that linked her life with that of Käthe, Lina and Ida now continues in the new generations: Florentine, the model who returns from Paris with unexpected news; Katja, who dreams of photographing conflicts around the world; and Ruth, struggling to break free from a stormy relationship. All of them, as their mothers and grandmothers did, share happiness and misfortune, apparently trivial moments and those that determine their destinies.
These are years of great events: the German people are divided, the Vietnam War terrifies half the world, a reborn extremism is spreading and the fall of the Berlin Wall signals the end of fear. The friendship that four friends forged served as inspiration for their daughters to reach their place in the world and illuminated the destiny of three young people at the beginning of a new era.
The four friends is the third and last installment of the trilogy Daughters of a new era, an exciting saga about freedom, love and courage that tells the fascinating story of the XNUMXth century through a generation of women who struggled to overcome their circumstances.
