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Far to Go
Alison Pick
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Description for Far to Go
Paperback. The history of the Kindertransport and one family's desperate struggle to escape Czechoslovakia during the Nazi invasion Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 244.
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 Times
Pepik 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780755379439
SKU
V9780755379439
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Far to Go
'A potential classic in the making'
Financial Times
'Extraordinary'
Daily Mail
'Clean, crisp and unencumbered'
Globe and Mail
'Somewhere between a book and a miracle'
Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of Love in the Present Tense
'A nuanced and layered portrait of betrayal . . ... Read more
Financial Times
'Extraordinary'
Daily Mail
'Clean, crisp and unencumbered'
Globe and Mail
'Somewhere between a book and a miracle'
Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of Love in the Present Tense
'A nuanced and layered portrait of betrayal . . ... Read more