Chris Bohjalian, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of The Flight Attendant

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Chris Bohjalian, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of The Flight Attendant

“Wunderland is a beautiful and haunting and utterly magnificent novel: a wrenching tale of friendship and betrayal in Nazi Germany. It’s also a page-turner that kept me reading until two in the morning one night and three in the morning the next. It’s that good.”

By Michael Balmaceda Posted in on Nov 5, 2018

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