EAN: 9781526663610

LIBRARY FOR THE WAR-WOUNDED - MONIKA HELFER KAR...

From Monika Helfer's award-winning  internationally bestselling wartime trilogy  based on her
own family. Translated into English for the first time. 'We called him Vati  Dad. Not Father 
not Papa. That's what he wanted. He thought it sounded modern. He wanted to present himself to
us  and through us  as a man in tune with the modern age. Though he seemed to come from
nowhere.' Josef was an illegitimate child  a charity case from Salzburg  schooled by a
benefactor. He was drafted to fight in the First World War while still at school and sent to
Russia  returning with only one leg. 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 home for injured
soldiers  a strangely suspended  deeply isolated place with a remarkable library. He was a man
of many mysteries. To his daughter  Monika  none was greater than his obsession with these
cloistered  crumbling books  his great treasure and secret amidst a country barrelling away
from the memory of war. Beautifully written  restrained  and memorable  Library for the
War-Wounded turns a real life into great literature by confronting the universal question: Who
are our parents  really?

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