The Winter We Waited (Paperback)
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Pranab Sarkar, 2026
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Paperback. The war is over. For one woman, the waiting has only just begun.It is the winter of 1918 in the small German town of Koenigsdorf, and Marta Lindt rises every morning before dawn to walk six streets to the church door. There, pinned beside a hundred other names, she searches for word of her husband Johann - missing since a battle near the Belgian border more than a year ago. Some mornings the list has changed. Most mornings it has not.At home, her eight-year-old son Peter is too sick to attend school, his weak chest worsened by a winter with too little coal and even less food. He spends his days at the window, watching the street for a father he barely remembers, while Marta rations what little the pantry holds and mends her neighbors' clothes in exchange for firewood, eggs, and the occasional loaf of bread. It is a portrait of postwar Germany rarely shown in fiction - not the battlefield, but the kitchen table; not the soldier, but the family left behind to survive him.When an official letter finally arrives with news that is neither confirmation nor closure, Marta must decide what to do with a hope that comes without guarantees. As the fever returns for Peter a second time, and the coldest week of the year presses against the walls of their small house, she is forced to find a strength she did not know she had - sustained only by the quiet, unglamorous kindness of neighbors who have almost nothing themselves, and by her own refusal to stop believing that tomorrow might be the day the waiting ends.The Winter We Waited is a work of historical literary fiction set in the fragile, largely unwritten months after the First World War - an era of empty pantries, uncertain homecomings, and women left to hold families together with nothing but willpower and love. Told in spare, honest prose, this is a novel about the particular courage required not in the heat of battle, but in the long, cold aftermath of it: the courage to keep hoping, to keep giving, and to keep walking to the church door one more grey morning, even when the list refuses to change.For readers who loved The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, and Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks - a deeply moving story of resilience, motherhood, and the true cost of war on those who stayed behind. A story of one small house, and the war that never quite left it This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
N° de ref. del artículo 9789360398989
- Título
- The Winter We Waited (Paperback)
- Autor
- Pranab Sarkar
- Editorial
- Pranab Sarkar
- Año de publicación
- 2026
- Estado
- new
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 10
- 9360398985
- ISBN 13
- 9789360398989
The war is over. For one woman, the waiting has only just begun.
It is the winter of 1918 in the small German town of Königsdorf, and Marta Lindt rises every morning before dawn to walk six streets to the church door. There, pinned beside a hundred other names, she searches for word of her husband Johann - missing since a battle near the Belgian border more than a year ago. Some mornings the list has changed. Most mornings it has not.
At home, her eight-year-old son Peter is too sick to attend school, his weak chest worsened by a winter with too little coal and even less food. He spends his days at the window, watching the street for a father he barely remembers, while Marta rations what little the pantry holds and mends her neighbors' clothes in exchange for firewood, eggs, and the occasional loaf of bread. It is a portrait of postwar Germany rarely shown in fiction - not the battlefield, but the kitchen table; not the soldier, but the family left behind to survive him.
When an official letter finally arrives with news that is neither confirmation nor closure, Marta must decide what to do with a hope that comes without guarantees. As the fever returns for Peter a second time, and the coldest week of the year presses against the walls of their small house, she is forced to find a strength she did not know she had - sustained only by the quiet, unglamorous kindness of neighbors who have almost nothing themselves, and by her own refusal to stop believing that tomorrow might be the day the waiting ends.
The Winter We Waited is a work of historical literary fiction set in the fragile, largely unwritten months after the First World War - an era of empty pantries, uncertain homecomings, and women left to hold families together with nothing but willpower and love. Told in spare, honest prose, this is a novel about the particular courage required not in the heat of battle, but in the long, cold aftermath of it: the courage to keep hoping, to keep giving, and to keep walking to the church door one more grey morning, even when the list refuses to change.
For readers who loved The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, and Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks - a deeply moving story of resilience, motherhood, and the true cost of war on those who stayed behind.
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