The Ring Author:Danielle Steel It begins with Kassandra von Gotthard, a beautiful prisoner in a diamond cage, wife of one of Berlin's richest bankers...and her lover, the world-famous German-Jewish novelist Dolff Sterne, a man supremely confident that his fatherland would never betray him. In Hitler's Germany, it is inevitable that their love affair should end in sorrow. Thei... more »r tragedy casts unexpected and ironic shadows - shadows that will touch the lives of all those who love them - and will haunt the Von Gotthards for generations to come.
Here is the triumphant novel that millions of Danielle Steel fans have been waiting for - a novel in which the best-selling author of The Promise, To Love Again, and Summer's End blends her unique gift for romance and glamor with a story of unforgettable power and impact. Moving from the mid-thirties to present-day America, it is the story of a woman's passion that eventually shapes the destiny of an entire dynasty.
The Ring is a family story. It is the story of Walmar Von Gotthard, Kassandra's husband, who gives his anguished wife a gift of love she never lives to see...
Ariana, their daughter, who must flee war-torn Germany for a new life in America - armed only with the memory of her mother's pain and the diamond ring her mother cherished. Years later, that same signet ring, worn proudly on another woman's hand, is responsible for giving Ariana the thing she wants most from life...
Paul Liebman, the American whom Ariana loved too late - and too little. He nurses hes debt of anger for a lifetme, until the moment when he can repay, not Ariana, but her son...
Noel, Ariana's son, raised with no warning hint of his mother's bitterest secret - until it threatens to destroy his own happiness...
The Ring sweeps them all through this century's most dramatic years, in a novel of divided loyalties and overwhelming passions, of families driven apart by forces they cannot control and brought together by the powers of compassion and love.« less
A family driven apart by over-whemling passions and then brought together by enduring love. Its the story of the ring and and a promise made to keep forever.
In a Germany engulfed by war and hatred, the beautiful wife of an influential banker, fell in love with a German author. His Jewish heritage led them both to death. The husband who survives her lives on to protect her memory, and their children. And the ring he passes on to his daughter, Ariana von Gotthard, remains a bond of love between them. Separated from her family, and unable to escape Germany, Ariana is finally arrested. A young Nazi officer offers her survival and hope for the future. Tragedy and a sudden twist of fate carries Ariana to America, to chilling deception, and a new life of unfamiliar terrors. Her past seemingly lost forever, her future uncertain, the ring she still clings to is all she has left of her father and brother. And in time it will become the bridge from her past to her future.
While Danielle Steel's books may not hold high literary status, her books are popular, and "The Ring" is one of her best efforts.
Steel, through her well honed writing skills, takes the female character through several love relationships starting with a character that she learned to love against all odds. Her love of a German Nazi soldier, and her love of another, finally leads to finding the greatest love of her life. Read the book and you'll find out how love does endure through all situations and finally wins out. One of her best books.
Book Description
In Germany engulfed by war and hatred, the beautiful wife of an influential banker fell in love with a German author. His Jewish heritage led them both to death. The husband who survives her lives on to protect her memory, and their children. And the ring he passes on to his daughter, Ariana von Gotthard, remains a bond of love between them. Separated from her family, and unable to escape Germany, Ariana is finally arrested. A young Nazi officer offers her survival and hope for the future. Tragedy and a sudden twist of fate carries Ariana to America, to a chilling deception, and a new life of unfamiliar terrors. Her past seemingly lost forever, her future uncertain, the ring she still clings to is all she has left of her father and brother. And in time it will become the bridge from her past to her future.