TY  - BOOK
AU  - O'Callaghan,Billy
TI  - The Paper Man
SN  - 9781787333772 (hbk.) :
AV  - PR6115.C347 
PY  - 2023///
CY  - [London]
PB  - Jonathan Cape
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Austria
KW  - Vienna
KW  - Fiction
KW  - General
KW  - eflch
KW  - General Fiction
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Ireland
KW  - thema
KW  - Inter-war period c 1919 to c 1939
KW  - c 1980 to c 1989
KW  - Modern & contemporary fiction
KW  - Vienna (Austria)
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
N2  - 1980s Cork. Jack Shine is sorting through his mother's belongings when he discovers a shoe box full of love letters and newspaper clippings. Jack's mother, Rebekah, was a young woman when the Second World War broke out, and she came to Cork alone as a Jewish refugee from Vienna. She died when Jack was young, and he never learned of his father's identity. So, who wrote these love letters to Rebekah and why did she keep newspaper clippings about a famous Austrian footballer player? Who was 'The Paper Man'? As Jack begins to uncover the story of his mother's life, he is transported to 1930s Vienna, a bustling, cosmopolitan city on the brink of war. At the heart of the action is Matthias Sindelar, one of the most famous footballers in the world, known to all as 'The Paper Man' because of his effortless weave across the pitch
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