WILL COMBINE BOOKS WHERE POSSIBLE - EX LIBRARY-MID SIZE SOFT COVER.DOSCARD LIBRARY STAMP ON INSIDE BLANK PAGE AND MARK ON PACK COVER WHERE RFID WAS REMOVED.Germany, 1939. Two children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of power. Siggi lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin, her father a censor who excises prohibited words (“promise”, “love”, “mercy”) from books. Erich is an only child living a lush rural life near Leipzig, tending beehives, aware that he is shadowed by strange, unanswered questions.