![]() At the same time, Etta’s husband is a difficult, quite traditional German man, a veteran of WWI, but who does not know how to act in his stage of life during wartime.īinder is a fine writer who builds a slow burning fire from a few tiny sparks and I found myself fully engaged with her characters, and immersed in their lives as I continued reading this book. The focus of the book is on Etta Huber, a hausfrau in a small town, whose eldest son had joined the army and gone to fight in the east, now coming home a broken man, and whose younger son, is dreamier and unmilitaristic child-like, and struggles with the country’s expectations for a German male. The Vanishing Sky is about a family struggling to survive at a time when World War II is coming to an end. I wanted to not be sympathetic to them, or their situation, my deep-seated antipathy toward mid-century Germany and its people emerging from my psyche. I am not sure why, but I resisted the book and almost set it aside. Yet I found that it was much more difficult for me to get into than I anticipated. ![]() Initially, I was looking forward to reading a book that did not focus on the victims of Nazi Germany, but on Germans themselves. I did not know what to expect when I started reading The Vanishing Sky. ![]() Annette Binder – 9781635574678 – Bloomsbury Publishing – Hardcover – 288 pages – J– $27.00 – ebook versions for sale at lower prices ![]()
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