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They went left / Monica Hesse.
"Zofia, a teenage Holocaust survivor, travels across post-war Europe as she searches for her younger brother and seeks to rebuild her shattered life"--Provided by publisher
Record details
- ISBN: 0316490571
- ISBN: 9780316490573
- Physical Description: xiv, 364 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020.
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| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 22.99 |
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| Subject: | Holocaust survivors > Fiction. Brothers and sisters > Fiction. Jews > Poland > Fiction. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Poland > Fiction. Europe > History > 1945- > Fiction. Poland > History > Occupation, 1939-1945 > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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- 1 of 2 copies available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | YA Hesse | 31681020155792 | YADULT | Available | - |
| Stroud Branch | YA Hesse | 31681020151007 | YADULT | In transit | - |
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"Zofia, a teenage Holocaust survivor, travels across post-war Europe as she searches for her younger brother and seeks to rebuild her shattered life"-- - Baker & Taylor
Navigating injuries and trauma after being liberated from the Gross-Rosen concentration camp in 1945 Germany, 18-year-old Zofia joins other survivors to keep a promise to find her brother. By the award-winning author of Girl in the Blue Coat. 75,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook. - Grand Central Pub?Booklist ?Bookpage ?The Bulletin ?Publishers Weekly ?Shelf Awareness ?SLC ?SLJ
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âCRUCIAL.â âThe New York Times Book Review
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In the rubble of a broken continent, a girl must solve a mystery whose answers could rebuild her familyâor break her completely, in this New York Times bestselling, critically acclaimed tour de force historical novel from Monica Hesse, author of Girl in the Blue Coat.
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Germany, 1945. The soldiers who liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp say the war is over, but nothing feels over to eighteen-year-old Zofia Lederman. Her body has barely begun to heal, her mind feels broken. And her life is completely shattered: Three years ago, she and her younger brother, Abek, were the only members of their family to be sent to the right, away from the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Everyone elseâher parents, her grandmother, radiant Aunt Majaâthey went left.
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Zofia's last words to her brother were a promise: Abek to Zofia, A to Z. When I find you again, we will fill our alphabet. Now her journey to fulfill that vow takes her through Poland and Germany, into a displaced persons camp where everyone she meets is trying to piece together a future from a painful past: Miriam, desperately searching for the twin she was separated from after they survived medical experimentation. Breine, a former heiress, who now longs only for a simple wedding with her new fiancé. And Josef, who guards his past behind a wall of secrets, and is beautiful and strange and magnetic all at once.
But the deeper Zofia digs, the more impossible her search seems. How can she find one boy in a sea of the missing?
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âThis is not just a story about death and survivalâitâs also about choosing to live on, even in the face of genocide, trauma and devastating loss. And what could be more relevant to our world today?â âSharon Cameron, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Light in Hidden Places, writing in The New York Times
"A heartbreaking, gorgeously written story...The ending left me breathless and awed by its expression of enduring love."?Jewell Parker Rhodes, New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Boys
