1939\. Vienna, Austria. Life was as close to perfect for medical doctor Johann Goetz, his artist wife Sybilla, and their three children . . . until the world went stark raving mad. As Nazi propaganda seeps into the fibers of Vienna, families and neighbors are pitted against one another, and hatred
The Secret Room (The Adopted Room)
β Scribed by Michaelis, Antonia
- Book ID
- 107346775
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Series
- Adopted Room 1
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Achim is eleven years old when he moves from the orphanage to the house by the sea. Here everything is strange and new. But one day he discovers an unusual door that leads to a circular room with walls made of rough stone. The light coming through the window is hazy, as if the room is under water. It is a magic roomβwhich he calls "The Adopted Room"βbelonging to another world. And on a bed in the room sits a boy who is waiting to take Achim with him into the realm of the powerful Nameless One. Achim learns that the boy, Arnim, is the long-dead son of Achim's new parents. When he died in a car accident at the age of four, Arnim was supposed to have become a bird and flown free to the land of the dead, which can be seen through the window of The Adopted Room. But the Nameless One has somehow locked Arnim inside, so he cannot leave. Achim, however, finds he can turn into a bird, slip through the window, and fly across the strange land. And thus begins a journey in...
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