- World War, 1939-1945, Children, New Zealand fiction, Fiction
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.
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Grave, earnest, contemplative and prestige.
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- Author
- Catherine Chidgey, Simon Vance
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- Victoria University Press, HighBridge Audio, Counterpoint Press
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781784741112
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