Far to Go
$38.34
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
31 January 2012
Summary
Longlisted for the 2011 MAN BOOKER PRIZE for Fiction, FAR TO GO is a powerful and profoundly moving story about one family’s epic journey to flee the Nazi occupation of their homeland in 1939.
Pavel and Anneliese Bauer are affluent, secular Jews, whose lives are turned upside down by the arrival of the German forces in Czechoslovakia. Desperate to avoid deportation, the Bauers flee to Prague with their six-year-old son, Pepik, and his beloved nanny, Marta. When the family try to flee …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780755379439 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0755379438 |
| Author: | Alison Pick |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Tinder Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 31 January 2012 |
| Weight: | 242g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 23mm |
| Series: | Review |
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‘Somewhere between a book and a miracle’
‘Clean, crisp and unencumbered’ - Globe and Mail
‘Somewhere between a book and a miracle’ - Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of Love in the Present Tense ‘A nuanced and layered portrait of betrayal … An intriguing experiment in the art of storytelling’ - Montreal Gazette ‘A potential classic in the making’ - Financial Times ‘Extraordinary’ - Daily MailAbout The Author
Alison Pick
Alison Pick’s grandparents were secular Jews, living in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi invasion. In FAR TO GO, she explores the history of a country and its people with which she has a strong personal connection.
Alison was the 2002 Bronwen Walace Award winner for the most promising writer under thirty-five in Canada. She has published two acclaimed volumes of poetry and her first novel, The Sweet Edge, was widely acclaimed. She lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter.
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