| ISBN |
9781784741105 (hardback) |
| 9781784741112 (paperback) |
| Name |
Chidgey, Catherine, 1970- author. |
| Title |
The wish child / Catherine Chidgey. |
| Published |
London : Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Vintage, 2017. |
| London Chatto & Windus, 2017. |
| ©2017 |
| Description |
383 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Notes |
ISBN on back cover differs from ISBN provided on t.p. verso. Both given in this record. |
| Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
| Awards note |
Ockham New Zealand Book Award, Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize Winner 2017. |
| Subjects |
World War, 1939-1945 |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Germany -- Berlin -- Fiction |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Germany -- Fiction |
| Children -- Germany -- Fiction |
| New Zealand fiction -- 21st century |
| Children |
| New Zealand fiction. |
| Berlin (Germany) -- Fiction |
| Germany |
| Germany -- Berlin |
| Genre |
New Zealand fiction 21st century |
| Fiction |
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