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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Helfer, Monika, 1947-     Subjects     Helfer, Monika, 1947- -- Family -- Fiction.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Fiction.     Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.     Amputees -- Fiction.     Books and reading -- Fiction.     Hospitals, Convalescent -- Fiction.     Hospital libraries -- Fiction.     Libraries -- Fiction.     Library administration -- Fiction.     Austria -- History -- 1945- -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Helfer, Monika, 1947-       by title:      Library for the war-...      Vati. English....       by call number:      FICTION HEL     Search the Web     Helfer, Monika, 1947-     Helfer, Monika, 1947- -- Family -- Fiction.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Fiction.     Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.     Amputees -- Fiction.     Books and reading -- Fiction.     Hospitals, Convalescent -- Fiction.     Hospital libraries -- Fiction.     Libraries -- Fiction.     Library administration -- Fiction.     Austria -- History -- 1945- -- Fiction.       MARC Display

Library for the war-wounded : a novel / Monika Helfer ; translated by Gillian Davidson. by Helfer, Monika, 1947- Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024. Call #: FICTION HEL Subjects Helfer, Monika, 1947- -- Family -- Fiction.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Fiction.   Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.   Amputees -- Fiction.   Books and reading -- Fiction.   Hospitals, Convalescent -- Fiction.   Hospital libraries -- Fiction.   Libraries -- Fiction.   Library administration -- Fiction.   Austria -- History -- 1945- -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781639732395 (hc.) Uniform title:  Vati. English. Description:  199 p. ; 22 cm. Notes:  "First published in 2021 in Germany as Vati by Carl Hanser Verlag"--T.p. verso. Translated from the German. Summary:  "Inspired by the author's family history, [this book] transports readers to the aftermath of World War II, uncovering the life of Helfer's father Josef. Born with the stigma of illegitimacy, he found solace in books, and his education was eventually funded by the Catholic Church. Drafted into the Wehrmacht, he witnessed the horrors of the Eastern Front and returned from the war an amputee. He married his nurse and brought his family to the high, idyllic slopes of the Austrian Alps, where he took a position as manager of a convalescent home for war-wounded. Josef was a man of many mysteries. To his daughter Monika, none was greater than his obsession with the home's unlikely and remarkable library, his great treasure and comfort as the country barrels away from the memory of war. He will stop at nothing to save it--even when it tears apart his family"--Provided by publisher. Genre:  Historical fiction. Autobiographical fiction. German fiction -- Translations into English. Other authors:  Davidson, Gillian. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION HEL Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Tantallon Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION HEL Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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