![]() ![]() The Felsings of Berlin were founders of the Felsing Clockmaker and Watch Company. Her mother, the widow Josephine Felsing, is obsessed with maintaining the family’s reputation. Raised in a poor but genteel household, Marlene learns from an early age the importance of appearances. ![]() Although the relationship is brief, it sparks Marlene’s hunger for love and raises questions about her sexual identity. The object of her infatuation is her new high school French teacher, Mademoiselle Bréguand, a stylish and perceptive young woman who takes the rebellious Marlene under her wing. Gortner’s latest novel, a fictionalized tale of Marlene Dietrich. “The first time I fell in love, I was twelve years old,” recounts Marlene, the narrator of C.W. ![]()
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