War spirit still holds sway, as with Etta’s tyrannical husband, Josef, who believes in final victory and would inform on anyone who doesn’t. The Vanishing Sky reveals the German home front as I’ve never seen it in fiction, a small town where nobody asks questions or unburdens herself, so that neighbors who’ve known one another all their lives are strangers. When he arrives, his strange, dissociated behavior troubles her, but since he’s thin, with no sign of physical injury, she insists that if she feeds him, he’ll get better. Etta Huber thanks God that her elder son, Max, is coming home, released from service on the Eastern Front.
With Georg a hundred miles away and a husband confronting his own difficult feelings toward patriotic duty, Etta alone must gather the pieces of a splintering family, determined to hold them together in the face of an uncertain future.In 1945, Germany has almost fallen, yet the government promises victory, demanding further sacrifices.
But soon after he arrives, it's clear that the boy who left is not the same returned. At home, news of the war provokes daily doses of fear as the planes grow closer, taking one city after the next.When Max is unexpectedly discharged, Etta is relieved to have her eldest home and safe. In Heidenfeld, Etta and her husband Josef roam an empty nest- their eldest son Max is fighting on the frontlines, while fifteen-year-old Georg has swapped books for guns at a N rnberg school for the Hitler Youth. They'd take the sky if they could.Germany, 1945, and the bombs are falling. A story of the shattering impact of war on one German family, The Vanishing Sky is a deeply moving portrait of why decent, caring people falter when confronted by evil.They've wrecked the world, these men, and still they're not done.
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