Fly Away Home

by Chr Nostlinger (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $4.20

  Based on the author's own childhood in war-torn Austria, this is the story of Christel Goth, whose family move to villa outside Vienna when their appartment is bombed. Her wounded father deserts from the army to be with them, but must then stay hidden from the Russian soldiers who occupy the villa.

• Used

  Paperback
  2009

  $3.25

  When her family's apartment in Vienna is bombed, Christel Goth and her family lose everything. They are offered the use of a summer villa in the suburbs, and walk there in just the clothes they stand up in. The war is ending, and there is a precarious existence eking out food stores, and anticipating horrors from the oncoming Russian army. But when they come, the worst the soldiers do is get drunk and fire their guns. It's a tense time, and Christel's active curiosity leads her into all sorts of dangerous places.