{"product_id":"the-wish-child-a-novel","title":"The Wish Child: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE ACORN FOUNDATION FICTION PRIZE AT THE OCKHAM NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS  A remarkable book with a stunningly original twist. The Times (London)  This international bestselling historical novel follows two children and a mysterious narrator as they navigate the falsehoods and wreckage of WW II Germany 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 Germanys 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 nations dream.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44944927260725,"sku":"ByrdShop_1640090975","price":60.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781640090972.jpg?v=1769861419","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-wish-child-a-novel","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}