Name: An Incidental Nazi (en Inglés)
SKU: 65861298
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Author: Catherine Gillard

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Histria Books

Autor

Catherine Gillard

Año

2026

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

300

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.86x15.24 cm

ISBN13

9781592117727

An Incidental Nazi (en Inglés)

Catherine Gillard (Autor) · Histria Books · Tapa Blanda

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A choirboy, a conflicted conductor, and a mother torn between love and survival—The Incidental Nazi follows lives scattered across continents during World War II, where music offers both hope and escape. With rich emotional depth and morally complex characters, it shows how ordinary people navigate impossible choices, making it a story that resonates with readers who care about history, humanity, and the quiet power of art.

A lost boys’ choir, a furious mother, and a compromised conductor—one war, three continents, and a love of music that outlasts every betrayal.

In 1938 Vienna, music is the only bright thing left. For Wolf Strauss, a foundling with a clear, soaring voice, the Vienna Mozart Boys’ Choir is home, hope and escape. For Dr Georg Gruber, the brilliant choirmaster now wearing a Nazi uniform, it’s the last thing worth protecting as the world tilts toward catastrophe.

Half a world away in Melbourne, sharp, stubborn Bobby Marsh is being bruised by nuns, bosses and, most of all, her glamorous, terrifying mother Henny—keeper of secrets, smoker of shisha, and the woman who chooses the choir over her own child again and again.

When the choir is shipped out—Vienna to Hamburg, New York, Hawaii, then wartime Australia—their voices fill grand halls while their lives quietly fall apart. Boys are stranded, sorted and separated. Labels like “enemy alien” and “undesirable race” land harder than any cane.

Told with the emotional bite of books like The Nightingale, The Incidental Nazi follows Bobby, Wolf and Georg across years of exile, forbidden love, and hard-won survival—held together, just barely, by the music they refuse to surrender.