The book of dirt / Bram Presser.
Momo rauemi: TextKaiwhakaputa: Melbourne : Text Publishing, 2017Whakaahuatanga: 303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781922268259
- 9781925240269
- 1925240266
Momo tuemi | Tauwāhi onāianei | Kohinga | Tau karanga | Tūnga | Rā oti | Waeherepae | Ngā puringa tuemi | |
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Fiction | Pātea LibraryPlus Fiction | Fiction | PRES (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | Wātea | i2191754 |
Tirotiro ana Pātea LibraryPlus Ngā whatanga, Shelving location: Fiction, Collection: Fiction Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
PRAG Child of earth and sky / | PRAT The color of magic / Colour of magic | PRAT Moving pictures / | PRES The book of dirt / | PRID We are not like them / | PRID You were always mine / | PRIE The adjacent / |
The Book of Dirt is a love story, a riveting survivors' tale, and a grandson's quest to learn about his grandparents' extraordinary lives. The author's family built myths around them - Jakub was a teacher in the camps, keeping the children busy until it was their turn to be killed; Dasa laid the railway sleepers on the tracks that brought her fellow Jews to their deaths. When they died, their stories went with them. Then came the cracks. Everything the author thought he knew was wrong. In this story of two unlikely survivors, Bram Presser brilliantly imagines the fate of Jakub, deported to Auschwitz and to Theresienstadt, where it was rumoured after the war that he had sorted through thousands of Jewish texts confiscated for a so-called Nazi Museum of the Extinct Race. The Book of Dirt is also the story of Frantiska, her fraught marriage in Prague, and how she and her two eldest daughters, Dasa and Irena, miraculously survived the camps. The Book of Dirt is a completely original, page-turning novel about family myths and Jewish myths. And it is a heart-warming story about a grandson's devotion to the power of writing, storytelling and his family's legacy.
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