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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.
Subjects:	World War (1939-1945) World War, 1939-1945 > Children > Germany > Berlin > Fiction. New Zealand fiction > 21st century. Children. Germany > Berlin. 1939-1945 New Zealand fiction. Fiction. Historical fiction.

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