{"product_id":"wish-child","title":"Wish Child","description":"\u003cp\u003eGermany, 1939. Two children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of power. Siggi lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin, her father a censor who excises prohibited words (‘promise’, ‘love’, ‘mercy’). Erich is an only child living a lush rural life, 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 theatre amidst the rubble of Berlin. Outside, white bedsheets hang from windows; all over the city people are talking of surrender. The days Siggi and Erich spend together will shape the rest of their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWatching over Siggi and Erich is the wish child, the mysterious 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 wreckage of a nation’s dream.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Club","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51541625766205,"sku":"9781776560622","price":12.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/3135\/9805\/files\/9781776560622.webp?v=1774918279","url":"https:\/\/bookclub.org.nz\/products\/wish-child","provider":"Book Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}