Far to Go - One family's epic journey to flee Nazi oppression
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| Verlag | headline |
| Auflage | 2012 |
| Seiten | 352 |
| Format | 19,7 cm |
| Gewicht | 248 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | Headline review |
| ISBN-10 | 0755379438 |
| EAN | 9780755379439 |
| Bestell-Nr | 75537943E |
Die kraftvolle und bewegende Geschichte einer tschechischen Familie, die 1939 vor der deutschen Besatzung aus ihrer Heimat flieht und alles daran setzt, ihren sechsjährigen Sohn zu retten. Der Titel war auf der Longlist für den Booker Prize 2011 und wurde von der wahren Geschichte der Großeltern der Autorin inspiriert.
Kurzbeschreibung:
The history of the Kindertransport and one family's desperate struggle to escape Czechoslovakia during the Nazi invasion
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. When the family try to flee without her to Paris, Marta betrays them to her Nazi boyfriend. But it is through Marta's determination that Pepik secures a place on a Kindertransport, though he never sees his parents or Marta again.
Inspired by Alison Pick's own grandparents who fled their native Czechoslovakia for Canada during the Second World War, FAR TO GO is a deeply personal and emotionally harrowing novel.
