The Wish Child
Read by
Simon Vance
Release:
10/02/2018
Release:
10/02/2018
Release:
10/02/2018
Release:
10/02/2018
Runtime:
9h 10m
Runtime:
9h 10m
Runtime:
9h 10m
Unabridged
Quantity:
“A remarkable book with a stunningly original twist.”
Times (London)
A Booklist Top 10 Pick of Historical Fiction on Audio
Longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
A Refinery29 Pick of the Month
This internationally bestselling historical novel follows two children and a mysterious narrator as they navigate the falsehoods and wreckage of World War II Germany
Germany, 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 excises prohibited words ("promise", "love", "mercy") from books. Erich is an only child living a lush 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 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.
Germany, 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 excises prohibited words ("promise", "love", "mercy") from books. Erich is an only child living a lush 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 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.
Release:
2018-10-02
2018-10-02
2018-10-02
2018-10-02
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
9h 10m
9h 10m
9h 10m
9h 10m
Format:
audio
audio
audio
audio
Weight:
0.7 lb
0.0 lb
0.7 lb
0.5 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781684416349
9781684416356
9781665132015
9781665132008
Publisher:
Highbridge Audio
Highbridge Audio
Highbridge Audio
Highbridge Audio
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