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The Yellow Bird Sings
Jennifer Rosner
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Description for The Yellow Bird Sings
Paperback.
'Prepare to have your heart broken' – Good Housekeeping
Woman & Home Book Club Pick
Poland, 1941. A mother. A child. An impossible choice.
After the Jews in their town are rounded up, Róza and her five-year-old daughter, Shira, seek shelter in a local farmer’s barn. They spend their days and nights in silence to avoid being caught.
When their safe haven is shattered, Róza faces an impossible choice: whether to keep her daughter close by her side, or give her the chance to survive by letting her go.
A deeply moving novel about the unbreakable ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781529032475
SKU
9781529032475
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Jennifer Rosner
The Yellow Bird Sings is Jennifer Rosner's debut novel. She is the author of the memoir If A Tree Falls: A Family’s Quest to Hear and Be Heard, and the children’s book, The Mitten String. Her writing has appeared in a wide variety of newspapers and magazines. Jennifer lives in western Massachusetts with her family.
Reviews for The Yellow Bird Sings
Prepare to have your heart broken
Good Housekeeping
If you only read one book this year, make it The Yellow Bird Sings . . . Jennifer Rosner’s novel stands alongside The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas as one of those profoundly special World War Two novels you know you will never forget
AJ Pearce, author of Dear ... Read more The Yellow Bird Sings is at the top of my reading list
Elle
A captivating, quietly powerful telling of music, loss, longing and hope
Living Magazines
Room meets Schindler’s List . . . a beautifully written tale of mothers and daughters
Kate Quinn, author of The Huntress and The Alice Network Told beneath an overarching sky of the unbreakable bond between mother and daughter, this is a story readers will continue to ponder long afterward
Lisa Wingate, author of Before We Were Yours and Before and After This is an absolutely beautiful and necessary novel, full of heartbreak but also hope, about the bond between mother and daughter, and the sacrifices made for love
Mary Beth Keane
New York Times
A captivating and emotional tale about the love between a mother and daughter
ReadPlus
A deeply moving novel in which even the weakest and most vulnerable are sustained by the power of music, stories and love in a music, stories and love in a time of terror and tyranny
Herald
A captivating read
Good Reading
Outstanding . . . it will appeal particularly to fans Marcus Zusak's The Book Thief
Glam Adelaide
Rosner’s debut novel is a World War II story with a Room-like twist, one that also deftly examines the ways in which art and imagination can sustain us . . . an effective work of suspense, and Rosner’s understanding of how art plays a role in our lives, even at the worst of times, is impressive
Kirkus
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Good Housekeeping
If you only read one book this year, make it The Yellow Bird Sings . . . Jennifer Rosner’s novel stands alongside The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas as one of those profoundly special World War Two novels you know you will never forget
AJ Pearce, author of Dear ... Read more The Yellow Bird Sings is at the top of my reading list
Elle
A captivating, quietly powerful telling of music, loss, longing and hope
Living Magazines
Room meets Schindler’s List . . . a beautifully written tale of mothers and daughters
Kate Quinn, author of The Huntress and The Alice Network Told beneath an overarching sky of the unbreakable bond between mother and daughter, this is a story readers will continue to ponder long afterward
Lisa Wingate, author of Before We Were Yours and Before and After This is an absolutely beautiful and necessary novel, full of heartbreak but also hope, about the bond between mother and daughter, and the sacrifices made for love
Mary Beth Keane
New York Times
A captivating and emotional tale about the love between a mother and daughter
ReadPlus
A deeply moving novel in which even the weakest and most vulnerable are sustained by the power of music, stories and love in a music, stories and love in a time of terror and tyranny
Herald
A captivating read
Good Reading
Outstanding . . . it will appeal particularly to fans Marcus Zusak's The Book Thief
Glam Adelaide
Rosner’s debut novel is a World War II story with a Room-like twist, one that also deftly examines the ways in which art and imagination can sustain us . . . an effective work of suspense, and Rosner’s understanding of how art plays a role in our lives, even at the worst of times, is impressive
Kirkus
Show Less