Catherine Chidgey Boeken

A moving story of entangled lives in Nazi Germany.

A dazzling portrayal of humanity and the natural world that perfectly balances violence and humour.[Bokinfo].

LONGLISTED: WOMENS' PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022A novel of devastating beauty set in Buchenwald during the Second World War.

When a charismatic new teacher arrives, everyone longs to be her pet. A gripping story of deception and guilt, set in a Catholic school during the 1980s.

This internationally bestselling historical novel that "fans of The Book Thief will enjoy" follows two children and a mysterious narrator as they navigate the falsehoods and wreckage of WWII Germany (Publishers Weekly). Germany, 1939. As Germany’s hope for a glorious future begins to collapse, two children, Sieglinde and Erich, find temporary refuge in an abandoned theater amid the rubble of Berlin. Outside, white bedsheets hang from windows; all over the city, people are talking of surrender. The days Sieglinde and Erich spend together will shape the rest of their lives. Watching over them is the wish child, the enigmatic 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 ruins of a nation’s dream. Winner of the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Awards “A remarkable book with a stunningly original twist.” —The Times (London)

Neuseeländische Autoren in Berlin. Eine Anthologie mit Beiträgen von Catherine Chidgey, Nigel Cox, William Direen, Stevan Eldred-Grigg, James McNeish, Cilla McQueen, Sarah Quigley, Tina Shaw, Philip Temple, Hone Tuwhare. Aus dem neuseeländischen Englisch von Cornelia C. Walter. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes Wellington