The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found: Winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award - Softcover

Es, Bart Van

 
9780241978726: The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found: Winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0241978726 ISBN 13: 9780241978726
Verlag: Penguin, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018
WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018
A SUNDAY TIMES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2019

'A masterpiece of history and memoir' Evening Standard

'Superb. This is a necessary book - painful, harrowing, tragic, but also uplifting' The Times

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Little Lien wasn't taken from her Jewish parents in the Hague - she was given away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a foster family in the provinces during the Nazi occupation, she survived the war only to find that her real parents had not. Much later, she fell out with her foster family, and Bart van Es - the grandson of Lien's foster parents - knew he needed to find out why.

His account of tracing Lien and telling her story is a searing exploration of two lives and two families. It is a story about love and misunderstanding and about the ways that our most painful experiences - so crucial in defining us - can also be redefined.

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'Luminous, elegant, haunting - I read it straight through' Philippe Sands, author of East West Street

'Deeply moving. Writes with an almost Sebaldian simplicity and understatement' Guardian

'Sensational and gripping . . . shedding light on some of the most urgent issues of our time' Judges of the Costa Book of the Year 2018

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Bart van Es was born in the Netherlands and is bilingual in English and Dutch. He now lives with his family in England. He is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Catherine's College. He has published three books, including, most recently, A Very Short Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies.

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The Cut Out Girl by Bart van Es has won the Costa Book of the Year 2018. Described as 'extraordinary' by the judges, The Cut Out Girl is the harrowing true story of a young girl's struggle to survive Nazi persecution, and a man's attempt to unveil his family's secrets.

Little Lien wasn't taken from her Jewish parents - she was given away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a foster family in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation, she survived the war only to find that her real parents had not. Much later, she fell out with her foster family, and Bart van Es - the grandson of Lien's foster parents - knew he needed to find out why. His account of tracing Lien and telling her story is a searing exploration of two lives and two families. It is a story about love and misunderstanding and about the ways that our most painful experiences - so crucial in defining us - can also be redefined.

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Verlag
Penguin
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0241978726
ISBN 13 
9780241978726
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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