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Monika Helfer
The second volume in Monika Helfer's internationally bestselling wartime trilogy, based on the history of her own family.
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The internationally bestselling novel-a daughter's portrait of her WWII veteran father, assembled from shards of memory.
We called him Vati, Dad. Not Papa. He thought it sounded modern. He wanted…
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From Monika Helfer's award-winning, internationally bestselling wartime trilogy, based on her own family. Translated into English for the first time.
'We called him Vati, Dad. Not Father, not Papa. That's…
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'Beautiful and heartbreaking ... I absolutely loved it' MONICA ALI
'A poignant, captivating, beautifully woven family saga. As honest as Elena Ferrante, with the folkloric intensity of Tea Obreht' CHRISTINA…
'The whole, biographically inspired family drama tells of the greatest feelings we have: Love, anger, envy and grief' Meike Schnitzler, Brigitte
'Every sentence resonates in hazy, indescribable beauty' Alexander Solloch…
1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER For readers of Ian McEwan, Elena Ferrante, and Julie Orringer, the spellbinding, internationally bestselling, multigenerational family saga set in a fractured rural village in WWI Austria.
‘The whole, biographically inspired family drama tells of the greatest feelings we have: Love, anger, envy and grief’ Meike Schnitzler, Brigitte
‘Every sentence resonates in hazy, indescribable beauty’ Alexander Solloch…
