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Author
Publisher
Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Germany, 1939. Two children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of power. Siggi lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin, her father a censor who excises prohibited words (?promise?, ?love?, ?mercy?). Erich is an only child living a lush rural life, 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...
2) The Forrests
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013 Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York City to the wide skies of Auckland, to the very end of her life, this is her great gift and possible misfortune. Through the wilderness of a commune, to falling in love, to early marriage and motherhood, from the glorious anguish...
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