Library for the war-wounded
(2024)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/HELFER,M
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024
DESCRIPTION
199 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781639732395, 163973239X :, 163973239X, 9781639732395
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"First published in 2021 in Germany as Vati by Carl Hanser Verlag."
"Inspired by the author's family history, this...story transports us to the aftermath of World War II where her father, Josef Helfer, after returning from the war an amputee, managed a convalescent home for the war-wounded and became obsessed with the home's unlikely and remarkable library"--