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Pick, Alison.
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Jews -- Czechoslovakia -- Fiction
Jewish families -- Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Czechoslovakia -- Fiction.
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Pick, Alison.
Jews -- Czechoslovakia -- Fiction
Jewish families -- Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Czechoslovakia -- Fiction.
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Far to go / Alison Pick.
by
Pick, Alison.
House of Anansi Press, c2010.
Call #:
FICTION
PIC
Subjects
Jews
--
Czechoslovakia
--
Fiction
Jewish families
--
Fiction
.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
--
Czechoslovakia
--
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9780887842955
9780887842382
Description:
314 p. ; 21 cm.
Summary:
""I wish this were a happy story. A story to make you doubt, and despair, and then have your hopes redeemed so you could believe again, at the last minute, in the essential goodness of the world around us and the people in it." So begins the mysterious present-day narrator and the compelling saga that takes us deep inside the world of one Jewish family during the lead-up to the Nazi occupation of
Czechoslovakia
in 1939. Pavel and Anneliese Bauer are affluent, secular
Jews
, whose lives are turned upside down by the arrival of the German forces. Desperate to avoid deportation, the Bauers flee with their six-year-old son, Pepik, and his beloved nanny, Marta. Pepik manages to secure a place on a Kindertransport, but he never sees his parents or Marta again. And it is through the fascinating present-day strand in the story that the unexpected fates of each of the Bauers is slowly revealed. Inspired by the harrowing five-year journey Alison Pick's own grandparents embarked upon from their native
Czechoslovakia
to Canada during the Second World War, "Far to Go" is an epic historical novel that traces one family's journey through these tumultuous and traumatic events."--Inside jacket.
Genre:
Jewish
fiction
.
Canadian
fiction
.
Historical
fiction
.
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