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Résumé
For readers of THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ and SCHINDLER'S LIST, FAR TO GO is a powerful, mesmerising novel centring on one family's heartbreaking decision to save their son - by saying goodbye to him for ever. Longlisted for the 2011 MAN BOOKER PRIZE for Fiction'Extraordinary' Daily Mail 'A potential classic in the making' Financial TimesPepik is only six when the German forces invade Czechoslovakia.
Desperate to find freedom, his affluent Jewish parents try to escape with him to Paris, but are betrayed by Marta, the family's beloved nanny. Yet it is Marta who then secures a place for the Pepik on a Kindertransport, an act of determination that saves his life. But the child is never to see his parents or Marta again.'Somewhere between a book and a miracle' Catherine Ryan Hyde
Desperate to find freedom, his affluent Jewish parents try to escape with him to Paris, but are betrayed by Marta, the family's beloved nanny. Yet it is Marta who then secures a place for the Pepik on a Kindertransport, an act of determination that saves his life. But the child is never to see his parents or Marta again.'Somewhere between a book and a miracle' Catherine Ryan Hyde
Fiche technique
- Date de parution : 11/05/2011
- Editeur : Tinder Press
- ISBN : 978-0-7553-7944-6
- EAN : 9780755379446
- Format : ePub
- Caractéristiques du format ePub
- Protection num. : Contenu protégé
À propos de l'auteur
Biographie d'Alison Pick
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.Du même auteur
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