ABOUT
THE BOOK

Set in 1930s Berlin, during the Nazis’ rise to power, The Seventh Gate brings together Sophie Riedesel, an intelligent, artistic, and sexually adventurous fourteen-year d with Isaac Zarco and his friends, most of whom are Jews, ex-circus performers and underground activists. When a series of forced sterilizations, brutal murders and ‘disappearings’ to concentration camps decimates the group, Sophie must fight with all her ingenuity and guile to save all that she loves about Germany – at any cost. In its beautifully shaped portraits and in its chilling but sensuous evocation of Berlin in the 1930s, The Seventh Gate is at one and the same time a love story and tragedy – and a tale of ferocious heroism.