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David's Story
Stig Dalager
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Description for David's Story
Paperback. A fast-paced, gritty WWII historical novel for teens/adults, based on diaries and memoirs of holocaust survivors. Editor(s): Robson, Cheryl. Translator(s): Osterfelt, Frances. Num Pages: 304 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 5AN; YFT. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 198 x 108 x 24. Weight in Grams: 336. 280 pages, ill. Editor(s): Robson, Cheryl. A fast-paced, gritty WWII historical novel for teens/adults, based on diaries and memoirs of holocaust survivors. Cateogry: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. BIC Classification: 5AN; YFT. Dimension: 198 x 108 x 24. Weight: 328. Translator(s): Osterfelt, Frances.
Separated from his parents who are deported by the Nazis, David struggles to survive, alone, hungry and scared, until he eventually finds his way to the city of Warsaw. There he learns from other Jewish boys how to work in the black market, dodging the police and the Gestapo until the eventual day comes when the ghetto is cleared and everyone is herded into trains for the long trip to the camps. Will David survive? Can he outwit them one more time? Shortlisted for The Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation.
Separated from his parents who are deported by the Nazis, David struggles to survive, alone, hungry and scared, until he eventually finds his way to the city of Warsaw. There he learns from other Jewish boys how to work in the black market, dodging the police and the Gestapo until the eventual day comes when the ghetto is cleared and everyone is herded into trains for the long trip to the camps. Will David survive? Can he outwit them one more time? Shortlisted for The Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation.
Product Details
Publisher
Aurora Metro Press
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
335 g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Twickenham, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781906582043
SKU
V9781906582043
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Ref
99-27
About Stig Dalager
Stig Dalager is one of Denmark's most distinguished authors whose novels and plays have been translated and staged internationally. His works include I count the hours, (staged in 12 countries), The Dream, (premiered in New York's La Mama Theatre starring Ingmar Bergman and Bibi Andersson ); Two Days in July (a novel about the plot to kill Hitler), Journey in ... Read more
Reviews for David's Story
“How was it possible for Stig Dalager to write about the last years of the story of David in such a shocking and convincing way that one should think that this was written by Isaac B. Singer or one of the other Polish-Jewish geniuses?” Jewish Information Magazine “Dalager has written a shockingly relevant historical novel, a taut story of ... Read more