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Leunens, Christine,

Caging skies / Christine Leunens. - London : John Murray, 2019. - 297 pages ; 20 cm.

"The inspiration for the major motion picture Jojo Rabbit"--Cover.

This extraordinary novel is seen through the eyes of Johannes, an avid member of the Hitler Youth in the 1940s. After he is severely injured in a raid, he discovers his parents are hiding a Jewish girl called Elsa behind a false wall in their large house in Vienna. His initial horror turns to interest, then love and obsession. After the disappearance of his parents, Johannes finds he is the only one aware of Elsa's existence in the house, the only one responsible for her survival. Both manipulating and manipulated, Johannes dreads the end of the war: with it will come the prospect of losing Elsa and their relationship, which ranges through passion and obsession, dependence and indifference, love and hate.

General.

ISBN: 9781529396355 (paperback) 1529396352 (paperback)

LCCN: be2020001265

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 019569199 Uk

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Hitler-Jugend--Fiction.

Subjects--Meeting Names:
World War (1939-1945)

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1939-1945

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Historical fiction.
Jews.
Jewish children in the Holocaust--Austria--Vienna--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Jews--Austria--Vienna--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Austria--Vienna.
Vienna (Austria)--History--1918---Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Fiction.
Historical fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: NZ823.3