comment on tone

“The Nazi Officer’s Wife” by Edith H. Beer and Susan Dworkin takes place in 1920s and 1930s Austria and Germany. Both are German-speaking countries and therefore there are many German phrases nterspersed throughout the English version of the book. Therefore, the story has the touch and feel of a tale of a foreign land from long ago. Edith is reconciled to the hard fact that she had become a German hausfrau (housewife) after she assumed the identity of an Aryan (a pure white member of the master race as defined by Nazi dogma).