The wish child : a novel /

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 a...

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Main Author: Chidgey, Catherine, 1970- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2018.
Edition:First Counterpoint hardcover edition.
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