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The Wish Child

The Wish Child

Chidgey, Catherine

Paperback

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1640092676
ISBN13: 9781640092679
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: Jan 21 2020
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
This internationally bestselling historical novel that fans of The Book Thief will enjoy follows two children and a mysterious narrator as they navigate the falsehoods and wreckage of WWII Germany (Publishers Weekly).

Germany, 1939. As Germany's hope for a glorious future begins to collapse, two children, Sieglinde and Erich, find temporary refuge in an abandoned theater amid 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.

Watching over them is the wish child, the enigmatic narrator of their story. He sees what they see, he feels what they feel, yet his is a voice that comes from deep inside the ruins of a nation's dream.

Winner of the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Awards

A remarkable book with a stunningly original twist. --The Times (London)

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