The Orphanage
by Hubert Fichte
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The first part of a trilogy whose latter volumes are currently being translated, this novel by the German writer Hubert Fichte is set during World War II in Germany, where a boy placed in a Catholic orphanage must make sense of the incomprehensible and inclement world outside.Tags
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- Canonical title
- The Orphanage
- Original title
- Das Waisenhaus
- Original publication date
- 1965
- Original language*
- Deutsch
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 833.914 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures German fiction 1900- 1900-1990 1945-1990
- LCC
- PT2666 .I25 .W3 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures German literature Individual authors or works 1961-2000
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- Dutch, English, German
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