9781635574678-1635574676-The Vanishing Sky

The Vanishing Sky

ISBN-13: 9781635574678
ISBN-10: 1635574676
Author: L. Annette Binder
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover 288 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781635574678
ISBN-10: 1635574676
Author: L. Annette Binder
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover 288 pages

Summary

The Vanishing Sky (ISBN-13: 9781635574678 and ISBN-10: 1635574676), written by authors L. Annette Binder, was published by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2020. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent The Vanishing Sky (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.46.

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For readers of Warlight and The Invisible Bridge, an intimate, harrowing story about a family of German citizens during World War II.

Included in theNew York Times Book Review's Summer Reading Guide for Historical Fiction

"There was no shelter without her sons."

In 1945, as the war in Germany nears its violent end, the Huber family is not yet free of its dangers or its insidious demands. Etta, a mother from a small, rural town, has two sons serving their home country: her elder, Max, on the Eastern front, and her younger, Georg, at a school for Hitler Youth. When Max returns from the front, Etta quickly realizes that something is not right-he is thin, almost ghostly, and behaving very strangely. Etta strives to protect him from the Nazi rule, even as her husband, Josef, becomes more nationalistic and impervious to Max's condition. Meanwhile, miles away, her younger son Georg has taken his fate into his own hands, deserting his young class of battle-bound soldiers to set off on a long and perilous journey home.

The Vanishing Sky is a World War II novel as seen through a German lens, a story of the irreparable damage of war on the home front, and one family's participation-involuntary, unseen, or direct-in a dangerous regime. Drawing inspiration from her own father's time in the Hitler Youth, L. Annette Binder has crafted a spellbinding novel about the choices we make for country and for family.

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