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The Wish Child
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The Wish Child

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A dark and terrifying portrayal of the way two ordinary German children - Siggi and Erich - are drawn into the Nazi dream of a perfect nation

‘A wonderful new talent’ Nick Hornby

Germany, 1939. Sieglinde lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin. Erich is an only child living a lush rural life, aware that he is shadowed by strange, unanswered questions. Both children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of power.

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. The days they spend there together will shape the rest of their lives.

Winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Date
5 July 2018
Pages
384
ISBN
9781784704339

A dark and terrifying portrayal of the way two ordinary German children - Siggi and Erich - are drawn into the Nazi dream of a perfect nation

‘A wonderful new talent’ Nick Hornby

Germany, 1939. Sieglinde lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin. Erich is an only child living a lush rural life, aware that he is shadowed by strange, unanswered questions. Both children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of power.

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. The days they spend there together will shape the rest of their lives.

Winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Date
5 July 2018
Pages
384
ISBN
9781784704339