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A heartrending coming-of-age novel set in a war-torn Europe. Elsa is only twelve years old when she begins to lose things. Her home. Her language. Her mother. Her name. Sent away from Nazi Germany, she flees first to Morocco and then to Paris, where she must keep her ailing father in hiding. As German troops tighten around the city, a harrowing escape to Marseilles puts her in the path of her guardian angel, a man in whom darkness and light are mingled in equal proportion. As the war drags on and Elsa leaves childhood behind, he draws her into the dangerous work of resisting the occupying force, and her heart is engaged in ways she can barely begin to understand. Josef is the seven year old son of a Luftwaffe officer and his frivolous wife; the one light in his little world is his governess, a woman who he learns has had to send her own child away for fear of her life. The precocious Josef, a budding spy, teases out everything he can learn about this mystery daughter. But as the balance of Germany's war tips toward defeat, Josef must focus on the hardships closer to home -- retrenching the coloured pins on his treasured battle maps as the bombers scream overhead. Through the eyes of Elsa and Josef, the eternal yearning of the refugee comes to life as never before. Based on real events experienced by the author's family, THE CHILDREN'S WAR is a masterly and suspenseful novel that evokes Pat Barker and Michael Ondaatje; it is almost unbearably moving in its depiction of the fragile love that springs up between those who have nothing else to give.
Brief Description:
Elsa is 12 when she flees Nazi Germany to eventually help the French resistance. Josef is seven and his father is a Luftwaffe officer. His governess has had to send her daughter away from Germany. These two children exemplify the eternal yearning of the refugee during World War II.
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