Rosa

  About the Author

  Jonathan Rabb is the author of The Overseer and The Book of Q. He lives in New York with his wife and two children.

  ALSO BY JONATHAN RABB

  The Overseer

  The Book of Q

  Frontispiece: Weiblicher Akt mit grünem Tuch, von hinten gesehen (Female Nude with Green Shawl Seen from Behind), by Käthe Kollwitz (1903), from Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Used with permission of Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.

  Copyright 2005 by Jonathan Rabb

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  All rights reserved.

  Published in the United States by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York

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  CROWN is a trademark and the Crown colophon is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Rabb, Jonathan.

  Rosa / Jonathan Rabb.

  1. Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871–1919—Fiction. 2. Attempted assassination—Fiction.

  3. Women revolutionaries—Fiction. 4. Women socialists—Fiction. 5. Women

  communists—Fiction. 6. Berlin (Germany)—Fiction. I. Title.

  PS3568.A215R675 2005

  813'.54—dc22

  2004014169

  MAP ILLUSTRATION BY JACKIE AHER

  eISBN: 978-0-307-23729-3

  v3.0