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The wish child

Summary: 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.

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  • ISBN: 9781784741105
  • Physical Description: print
    383 pages ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: London Chatto & Windus, 2017.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Awards Note:
Ockham New Zealand Book Award, Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize Winner 2017.
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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  • 1 of 1 copy available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Castlegar Public Library.

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