Caging Skies
  • Published: 1 October 2019
  • ISBN: 9780143773597
  • Imprint: RHNZ Adult ebooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304

Caging Skies

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1 Oct 2019
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A gripping, atmospheric novel about obsession and love.

Inspiring a major film, this gripping novel examines truth and lies, and lays bare our darkest impulses.

I was sure I heard steps up and down the hall in the middle of the night.

Johannes is an avid member of the Hitler Youth. As the war rages on, he discovers his parents are hiding a Jewish girl called Elsa behind a false wall in their large house in Vienna. His initial horror turns to love and obsession.

Both manipulating and manipulated, Johannes soon finds he is the only one aware of Elsa's existence in the house, the only one responsible for her survival.

‘It is a beautiful novel, powerful, different, and ambitious.’ — Le Monde
  • Published: 1 October 2019
  • ISBN: 9780143773597
  • Imprint: RHNZ Adult ebooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304
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About the author

Christine Leunens

Christine Leunens is the author of three novels, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. Born in Hartford, Connecticut to an Italian mother and a Belgian father, she has dual New Zealand/Belgian citizenship. She holds a Master of Liberal Arts in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard University, and a PhD in Creative Writing from Victoria University of Wellington. She now lives in Nelson and has completed a historical Franco-New Zealand novel, In Amber's Wake, set around the time of the Rainbow Warrior bombing.

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Praise for Caging Skies

A vivid and deeply compelling novel, Caging Skies is an existential battle of moral and ethical extremes. Christine Leunens is an adept and eloquent storyteller.

Georgia Hunter, bestselling author of We Were the Lucky Ones, New York Times

Leunens is a strong writer, her prose supple and darkly engaging. Her depiction of wartime Vienna is nearly cinematic and utterly convincing.

Kirkus Review

Caging Skies is a superbly written story of a young Aryan boy, Johannes, growing up in Vienna at this time.

Margaret Reilly, Stratford Press

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Caging Skies - book club guide

Christine Leunens shares discussion points, ideas and questions for her book Caging Skies in this book club guide. Caging Skies is a gripping, atmospheric novel about obsession and love.