Bibliograph

Secret father, James Carroll

Type

Label

Secret father, James Carroll

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Secret father

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

James Carroll

Series statement

Stories to remember. Senior series

Summary

Missed signals, cloaked motives, false postures, and panicked responses echo tragically across borders and generations when, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a father and son recount the tense events of nearly thirty years before. In 1961, just before the Wall rises, three teenagers from an American school in West Germany travel to the Communist side of the divided city to join a rally. Unknown to them, their parents have unfinished business reaching back to World War II which will pull the teens into the vortex of an international incident

Target audience

adult

Classification