Das Medaillon - German Edition Author:Gina Mayer Germany in the year 1856: Rosalie Kuhn, the daughter of progressive parents, expects more from her life than keeping house. So she starts working as an assistant in the local pharmacy. For contemporaries, the young woman's life style is scandalous, for before long Rosalie is not only working but is also involved in a passionate affair with Minte... more »r, the married pharmacist. Rosalie's friend, Dorothy, on the other hand, comes from a strict pietistic home and must surreptitiously fight for her personal freedom. She secretly visits the Jewish Librarian Kirschbaum and helps him out in his lending library. Gradually, a tender love develops between Dorothea and the much older man. But the time for such breaks in taboos has not yet come: when Kirschbaum is killed in an arson attack, Dorothea sees no further sense in her life and commits suicide. Rosalie pays her friend her last respects and lays a little medallion, once given to her by her mother, into Dorothea's grave. Then Rosalie says farewell to her town, a town in which she sees no future for herself. The intimacy between Rosalie and Minter has disappeared, and neither will she be able to go to university, as the ambitious young woman has long dreamed of doing. This is why she emigrates to America. Press ""Lively, passionate, sympathetic and excellently researched."" Rheinische Post on ""The Protestant Woman"" Author Gina Mayer, born in 1965, works as a copywriter. Gina Mayer, born in 1965, works as a copywriter. She is married and has two children. The Medallion is her second novel.« less