{"product_id":"2940170214518","title":"The Wish Child: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis internationally best-selling historical novel follows two children and a mysterious narrator as they navigate the falsehoods and wreckage of World War II in Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGermany, 1939. Two children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of power. Sieglinde lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin, her father a censor who excises prohibited words (\"promise\", \"love\", \"mercy\") from books. Erich is an only child living a lush rural life near Leipzig, tending beehives, aware that he is shadowed by strange, unanswered questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawn together as Germany's hope for a glorious future begins to collapse, the children find temporary refuge in an abandoned theater amid the rubble of Berlin. Outside, white bed sheets hang from windows; all over the city people are talking of surrender. The days Sieglinde and Erich spend together will shape the rest of their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWatching over them is the wish child, the enigmatic narrator of their story. He sees what they see, he feels what they feel, yet his is a voice that comes from deep inside the ruins of a nation's dream.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HighBridge Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47098267861232,"sku":"2940170214518","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170214518_p0.jpg?v=1763705296","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170214518","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}