![]() ![]() The tone of the narration may seem distant at first, but by the end, I couldn’t imagine it any other way. It isn’t an easy book to read, but it’s magnificent all the same. The Vanishing Sky reminded me a great deal of All Quiet on the Western Front. She vows to hold onto him as best she could, though she knows it won’t be easy. Theyd take the sky if they could.Germany, 1945, and the bombs are falling. At first, he seems merely shaken by the war, but as the days go on, it becomes clearer that something is very wrong with his mind. A heartbreaking portrait of an ordinary family shattered by a war they didnt want The TimesTheyve wrecked the world, these men, and still theyre not done. Her older son, Max, has come home from the front changed. As he makes his way across Germany, Etta has her own struggle to face. The book alternates between following Etta Huber, the mother of the family, and her younger son Georg, who grows disillusioned enough with the Hitler Youth to flee his group and try to run back home. The Vanishing Sky follows a family of four as they struggle to survive without falling apart. Even for ordinary civilians, life grew hellish at the end of the second world war. There are some times and places which are difficult to write about with any sort of happiness. Read an excerpt of this book Add to Wishlist. ![]()
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