War Toys
by Carolina Pobla
Description
A woman struggles to bring up her family while love and
friendship break through in times of war.
One autumn afternoon in Barcelona, Violeta, the author's mother, is told about the death of her brother Victor. And the great revelation comes with more news: Victor was adopted.
In 1942, Elsa, widow of a Luftwaffe aviator and mother of six children, including Violeta, returns to the village of Bavaria where she spent the summers of her childhood. She wants to take her children away from the war, but upon her arrival she finds out the family mansion is now a military hospital and she has to accommodate her family in a humble cottage on the mountain. While the country crumbles, her children grow up and live experiences that will make them mature quickly.
Elsa, a struggling mother and an efficient worker, uses her knowledge as a midwife to help in the hospital, but is also a young woman who, despite the prevailing chaos, will through herself into an intense love story.
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Author Biography
Carolina Pobla (Barcelona, 1962) has a German mother and a Catalan father. She studied Education at the University of Barcelona and has been immersed in the world of dance for over thirty years, in the fields of teaching, choreography and performance. Her previous novel Geraniums on the Balcony (Maeva, 2018) is freely based on her grandparents’ lives, and it has been published by Garzanti in Italy. War Toys is her second novel.
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IECO is a literary agency with a staff of nine based in Barcelona.
View all titlesBibliographic Information
- Publisher Maeva
- Publication Date July 2020
- Orginal LanguageSpanish
- Publication Country or regionSpain
- FormatPaperback
- Pages440
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleSpanish
- Original Language AuthorsSpanish
- Copyright Year2020
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