The Vanishing Sky
by L. Annette Binder
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Pub Date 11 Jun 2020 | Archive Date 11 Jun 2020
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (UK & ANZ) | Bloomsbury Circus
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Description
A story of the shattering impact of war on one German family, perfect for readers of Warlight and All the Light We Cannot See.
They've wrecked the world, these men, and still they're not done. They'd take the sky if they could.
Germany, 1945, and the bombs are falling. In Heidenfeld, Etta and her husband Josef roam an empty nest: their eldest son Max is fighting on the frontlines, while fifteen-year-old Georg has swapped books for guns at a Nürnberg school for the Hitler Youth. At home, news of the war provokes daily doses of fear as the planes grow closer, taking one city after the next.
When Max is unexpectedly discharged, Etta is relieved to have her eldest home and safe. But soon after he arrives, it’s clear that the boy who left is not the same returned. With Georg a hundred miles away and a husband confronting his own difficult feelings toward patriotic duty, Etta alone must gather the pieces of a splintering family, determined to hold them together in the face of an uncertain future.
Advance Praise
'A heartrending and blazingly lucid depiction of Nazi Germany as not a simple monolith of evil but as an oppressive, fanatical political regime that was encountered, accommodated, rejected, and survived by ordinary people, people just like you and me' - Miriam Toews, author of Women Talking
'This is a story—in all its rich layers—that dazzles, breaks your heart, clutches you, and gets you back up again. I’m grateful to have experienced it' - Paul Yoon, author of The Mountain
What readers are saying:
'The Vanishing Sky belongs at the top of all readers’ TBR stack'
'It is a must read, a page-turning, evocative (I can picture it, scene by scene!) novel about motherhood, war, the end of boyhood, shame, and the unexpected things that endure'
'In the realm of historical fiction, The Vanishing Sky is a true standout'
'A powerfully gut-wrenching and beautifully told war story from the perspective of a German family in the last months of WWII'
'Binder shows us just how powerful small moments of kindness and connection can be, in prose as soft, rhythmic, and beautiful as falling snow'
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781526616722 |
| PRICE | £14.99 (GBP) |
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