They Went Left
Autor Monica Hesseen Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 mai 2021 – vârsta de la 14 ani
In the rubble of a broken continent, a girl must solve a mystery whose answers could rebuild her family-or 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.
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 else-her parents, her grandmother, radiant Aunt Maja-they went left.
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?
"This is not just a story about death and survival-it's 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?" -Sharon 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
"CRUCIAL." -TheNew York Times Book Review
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0316490598
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 138 x 212 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Little, Brown Young Readers US
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Descriere
Desperate to find Abek, fulfill her vow, and rebuild their lives, Zofia's search brings her to their hometown in Poland and then deep into a displaced persons camp in Germany. There, Zofia meets fellow Holocaust survivors, each battling with their painful pasts and working towards different futures. There's Briene, eager to marry her new beau and start a new life; Miriam, searching far and wide for the twin she was separated from at liberation, who was the victim of horrible experiments; and Josef, who picks fights with bullies and refuses to talk about his past, but whose good looks and unexpected honesty draw Zofia in.
The deeper Zofia digs, the more impossible her search seems. How can she find one boy in a sea of the missing? And if she does find him, how can she know that it's her Abek? After surviving unimaginable horrors, Zofia must now delve into a mystery whose answers could break her--or help her rebuild her world.