Children and FireChildren and Fire
a Novel
First Scribner hardcover edition
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Book, 2011
Current format, Book, 2011, First Scribner hardcover edition, All copies in use.In this remarkable novel, set very early in Hitler's regime, Hegi funnels history through the perspectives and stories of individual characters. The reader gets a sense of how one society - educated, cultural, compassionate - can slip into a reality that's fabricated by propaganda and controlled by fear; how a surge of national unity can be manipulated into the dehumanization of a perceived enemy and the justification of torture and murder. But on this winter Tuesday in 1934, Thekla Koppen doesn't know, of course, how it will end. We do.
In this remarkable novel, set very early in Hitler's regime, Hegi funnels history through the perspectives and stories of individual characters. The reader gets a sense of how one society - educated, cultural, compassionate - can slip into a reality that's fabricated by propaganda and controlled by fear; how a surge of national unity can be manipulated into the dehumanization of a perceived enemy and the justification of torture and murder. But on this winter Tuesday in 1934, Thekla Koppen doesn't know, of course, how it will end. We do.
In this remarkable novel, set very early in Hitler's regime, Hegi funnels history through the perspectives and stories of individual characters. The reader gets a sense of how one society - educated, cultural, compassionate - can slip into a reality that's fabricated by propaganda and controlled by fear; how a surge of national unity can be manipulated into the dehumanization of a perceived enemy and the justification of torture and murder. But on this winter Tuesday in 1934, Thekla Koppen doesn't know, of course, how it will end. We do.
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