The Resource The wish child : a novel, Catherine Chidgey
The wish child : a novel, Catherine Chidgey
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The item The wish child : a novel, Catherine Chidgey represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Williamsburg Regional Library.
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Counterpoint hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 371 pages
- Isbn
- 9781640090972
- Label
- The wish child : a novel
- Title
- The wish child
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Catherine Chidgey
- Subject
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- trueMiddle class families
- trueFamily relationships
- trueGermany -- History -- 20th century
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueNazism
- trueNew Zealand fiction
- truePropaganda
- trueRural families
- trueSecond World War era (1939-1945) -- 1939 -- 1945
- trueWar
- War fiction
- trueWar stories
- trueWorld War II -- Germany
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Germany | Berlin -- Fiction
- trueBerlin, Germany -- History -- 20th century
- trueChildren and war
- trueFamilies
- trueFamily and war
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Summary
- In 1939 Germany, two children find refuge in an abandoned theater amid the rubble of Berlin.
- Award
- Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, Fiction, 2017.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10549107
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1970-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Chidgey, Catherine
- Dewey number
- 823.2
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR9639.3.C535
- LC item number
- W57 2018
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
- World War, 1939-1945
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The wish child : a novel, Catherine Chidgey
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Counterpoint hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 371 pages
- Isbn
- 9781640090972
- Lccn
- 2018023438
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- on1022989173
- (OCoLC)1022989173
- Label
- The wish child : a novel, Catherine Chidgey
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Counterpoint hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 371 pages
- Isbn
- 9781640090972
- Lccn
- 2018023438
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- on1022989173
- (OCoLC)1022989173
Subject
- trueMiddle class families
- trueFamily relationships
- trueGermany -- History -- 20th century
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueNazism
- trueNew Zealand fiction
- truePropaganda
- trueRural families
- trueSecond World War era (1939-1945) -- 1939 -- 1945
- trueWar
- War fiction
- trueWar stories
- trueWorld War II -- Germany
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Germany | Berlin -- Fiction
- trueBerlin, Germany -- History -- 20th century
- trueChildren and war
- trueFamilies
- trueFamily and war
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