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Far to Go

Alison Pick

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#5931 of 8,085 books · #867 in Historical Fiction

Longlisted for the Booker Prize (2011).

Far to Go was longlisted for the 2011 MAN BOOKER PRIZE for Fiction. 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 then secures a place for the Pepik on a Kindertransport, an act of determination that saves his life. But the child is never to see his parents or Marta again.

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Publisher
Tinder Press
ISBN-13
9780755379446
Topics
Holocaust and World War IIFamily separation and sacrificeJewish identity and survival

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