Resistance Reading Guide & Discussion Questions

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For supplemental discussion material see our Beyond the Book article, The British Resistance and our BookBrowse Review of Resistance.

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About This Guide
The questions and discussion topics that follow are intended to enhance your reading of Owen Sheers's Resistance. We hope they will enrich your experience of this mesmerizing novel. To find other great books for reading groups, visit http://www.randomhouse.com/doubleday/readers/.


Reader's Guide

1. Discuss the ways in which the very specific landscape and setting of the novel not only allows the isolationist plot to develop but also lends the narrative both an important historical and thematic context.
2. To whom or to what does the novel's title, Resistance, apply?To what extent does Albrecht fulfill the literary figure of the “Good German?” Is he, in fact, a “good” man?
3. To what extent does Albrecht fulfill the literary figure of the “Good German?” Is he, in fact, a “good” man?

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