TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chidgey, Catherine,
TI  - The wish child
SN  - 9781776560622
U1  - 823.2 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Wellington 
PB  - Victoria University Pres
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Children
KW  - Germany
KW  - Berlin
KW  - Fiction
KW  - New Zealand fiction
KW  - 21st century
N1  - Novel
N2  - Its 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&#x;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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