The wish child / Catherine Chidgey.
It?s 1939. Two children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of power. Sieglinde lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin, her father a censor who cuts prohibited words such as love and mercy out of books. Erich is an only child living a rural life near Leipzig, tending beehives, aware that he is shadowed by strange, unanswered questions. Drawn together as Germany's hope for a glorious future begins to collapse, the children find temporary refuge in an abandoned theatre amidst the rubble of Berlin. Outside, white bedsheets hang from windows; all over the city people are talking of surrender. The days Sieglinde and Erich spend together will shape the rest of their lives.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781784741105
- Physical Description: 383 pages ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: London Chatto & Windus, 2017.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Awards Note: | Ockham New Zealand Book Award, Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize Winner 2017. |
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Subject: | World War, 1939-1945 > Children > Germany > Fiction. Children > Germany > Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 > Children > Germany > Berlin > Fiction. Berlin (Germany) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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