Playing for the Commandant - Hardcover

Zail, Suzy

 
9780763664039: Playing for the Commandant
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0763664030 ISBN 13: 9780763664039
Verlag: Candlewick, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

A young Jewish pianist at Auschwitz, desperate to save her family, is chosen to play at the camp commandant’s house. How could she know she would fall in love with the wrong boy?

“Look after each other . . . and get home safe. And when you do, tell everyone what you saw and what they did to us.”

These are Hanna’s father’s parting words to her and her sister when their family is separated at the gates of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Her father’s words — and a black C-sharp piano key hidden away in the folds of her dress — are all that she has left to remind her of life before. Before, Hanna was going to be a famous concert pianist. She was going to wear her yellow dress to a dance. And she was going to dance with a boy. But then the Nazis came. Now it is up to Hanna to do all she can to keep her mother and sister alive, even if that means playing piano for the commandant and his guests. Staying alive isn’t supposed to include falling in love with the commandant’s son. But Karl Jager is beautiful, and his aloofness belies a secret. And war makes you do dangerous things.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Suzy Zail is the author of numerous books for children and adults, including The Tattooed Flower, an account of how her father survived the Holocaust. Playing for the Commandant is her first work of fiction for young adults. She lives in Australia.

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Verlag
Candlewick
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0763664030
ISBN 13 
9780763664039
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
256
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Candlewick Press
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