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Far to Go

English · Paperback

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Informationen zum Autor Alison Pick is the author of FAR TO GO, longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, and winner of the Canadian Jewish Book Award for fiction; and a memoir, BETWEEN GODS, which was shortlisted for the Wingate Prize. She is also the author of two collections of poetry, and a novel, THE SWEET EDGE, all of which were published to wide acclaim. She lives in Toronto, Canada. Klappentext Longlisted for the 2011 MAN BOOKER PRIZE for Fiction, FAR TO GO is a powerful and profoundly moving story about one family's epic journey to flee the Nazi occupation of their homeland in 1939. Pavel and Anneliese Bauer are affluent, secular Jews, whose lives are turned upside down by the arrival of the German forces in Czechoslovakia. Desperate to avoid deportation, the Bauers flee to Prague with their six-year-old son, Pepik, and his beloved nanny, Marta. They then decide to put Pepik on the Kindertransport to save him but know they will never see him again. Zusammenfassung For readers of THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ and SCHINDLER'S LIST, the unforgettable, heart-breaking story of the Kindertransport and one family's desperate struggle to escape Czechoslovakia during the Nazi invasion

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Authors Alison Pick, Pick Alison
Publisher Tinder Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 29.02.2012
 
EAN 9780755379439
ISBN 978-0-7553-7943-9
No. of pages 352
Dimensions 130 mm x 197 mm x 23 mm
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Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

FICTION / War & Military, Historical fiction, Second World War fiction, FICTION / Jewish, Former Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovakia

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