The Only Child

Novel based on a true story

  • The heartrending fate of the little war orphan Djoko, who flees across Europe during World War 2
  • More than 200,000 orphans had to go through the unimaginable to survive during this time
  • More than 15 million books sold - Hera Lind is one of the most successful German-language authors

Contemporary history meets a poignant fate: the new factual novel by the #1 SPIEGEL bestselling author

 

October 1940 in former Yugoslavia: The family of 5-year-old Djoko leads a simple but happy life in a small village. Until the fascist army of the Ustashas shows up, having sworn death to all Serbs. As a grenade hits the family's tiny hut, only a badly injured Djoko survives. When he finally manages to wriggle out of the rubble, his  tale of woe is not over: in the midst of the worst turmoil of the war the little orphan is on the run for years - from present-day Bosnia via Romania and Germany to Austria. Again and again Djoko finds help, again and again people are taken away from him. However there is one thing he never loses: hope.

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  • Publisher: Knaur TB
  • Release: 02.11.2023
  • ISBN: 978-3-426-52836-5
  • 384 Pages
  • Author: Hera Lind
The Only Child
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Hera Lind

Hera Lind studierte Germanistik, Musik und Theologie und war Sängerin, bevor sie mit zahlreichen Romanen sensationellen Erfolg hatte. Mit ihren Tatsachenromanen, die alle auf wahren Geschichten beruhen, erobert Hera Lind immer wieder verlässlich die vordersten Plätze der  SPIEGEL -Bestsellerliste. Hera Lind lebt mit ihrer Familie in
Salzburg.

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