Meanwhile, miles away, her younger son Georg has taken his fate into his own hands, deserting his young class of battle-bound soldiers to set off on a long and perilous journey home. Etta strives to protect him from the Nazi rule, even as her husband, Josef, becomes more nationalistic and impervious to Max’s condition. When Max returns from the front, Etta quickly realizes that something is not right - he is thin, almost ghostly and behaving very strangely. Etta, a mother from a small, rural town, has two sons serving their home country: her elder, Max, on the Eastern front and her younger, Georg, at a school for Hitler Youth. In 1945, as the war in Germany nears its violent end, the Huber family is not yet free of its dangers or its insidious demands. Included in the New York Times Book Review's Summer Reading Guide for Historical Fiction. Annette Binder, read by Laurel Lefkow.įor fans of Warlight and The Invisible Bridge, an intimate, harrowing story about a family of German citizens during World War II. Bloomsbury presents The Vanishing Sky by L.
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