- Fiction, Fathers and sons, Identity (Philosophical concept), Paternity
1945. At the end of the Second World War in Berlin, a young mother loses her two-year-old boy in the bombings. She flees to the south, where her father finds a young foundling of the same age among the refugee trains to replace the boy.
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- Author
- Hugo Hamilton
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 262
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate (GB), Harper, Fourth Estate
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780007192168
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