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Title Statement | Library for the war-wounded: a novel / Monika Helfer ; translated by Gillian Davidson. |
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Author | Helfer, Monika, 1947- |
Additional Contributors | Davidson, Gillian |
Helfer, Monika,1947- | |
Publication | New York: Bloomsbury Publishing,2024. |
Extent of Item | 199 pages ; |
ISBN | 9781639732395 (hardcover) |
Other Number | pr07277052 |
General Notes | "First published in 2021 in Germany as Vati by Carl Hanser Verlag."--Title page verso. |
Languages | In English, translated from German. |
Summary | "Inspired by the author's family history, Library for the War-Wounded transports readers to the aftermath of World War II, uncovering the life of Helfer's father, Josef. Born with the stigma of illegitimacy, he found solace in books, and his education was eventually funded by the Catholic Church. Drafted into the Wehrmacht, he witnessed the horrors of the Eastern Front and returned from the war an amputee. He married his nurse and brought his family to the high, idyllic slopes of the Austrian Alps, where he took a position as manager of a convalescent home for war-wounded. Josef was a man of many mysteries. To his daughter Monika, none was greater than his obsession with the home's unlikely and remarkable library, his great treasure and comfort as the country barrels away from the memory of war. He will stop at nothing to save it-even when it tears apart his family."-- |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Families--Fiction--Austria |
Libraries--Fiction | |
Veterans--Fiction | |
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction--Austria | |
By Location | Alps, Austrian (Austria)--Fiction |
Austria--Fiction | |
By Genre | Historical fiction |
Domestic fiction | |
Novels |