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1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 10 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Simon Vance. |
| Summary |
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. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Germany -- Fiction.
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Children -- Germany -- Fiction.
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New Zealand fiction -- 21st century.
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Berlin (Germany) -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Vance, Simon.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781684416356 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1684416353 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12224417 |
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