$23.13
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
27 November 2018
Summary
Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious volumes the prisoners have managed to sneak past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes the librarian of Auschwitz.
Out of one of the darkest chapters of human history comes this ex…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781250217677 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1250217679 |
| Author: | Antonio Iturbe, Lilit Thwaites |
| Publisher: | Henry Holt & Company Inc |
| Imprint: | Henry Holt & Company Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 27 November 2018 |
| Weight: | 326g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 132mm x 32mm |
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About The Author
Antonio Iturbe
Antonio Iturbe lives in Spain, where he is both a novelist and a journalist. In researching The Librarian of Auschwitz, he interviewed Dita Kraus, the real-life librarian of Auschwitz.
Lilit Zekulin Thwaites is an award-winning literary translator. After thirty years as an academic at La Trobe University in Australia, she retired from teaching and now focuses primarily on her ongoing translation and research projects.
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