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I enjoyed several of Boyne's other novels, including The Heart’s Invisible Furies and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, but I loved this one even more. Like The Boy in the Striped Pajama, this book is about the holocaust. However, Boyne's approach to his subect is completely original. Instead of giving us the horrific but often overdone details about the camps, he purposely avoids them, with the main character, Gretel, simply calling Auschwitz that "other place." Alternating chapters from present to past, he consciously delays the worst that Gretel has experienced until well into the novel. And juxtaposed to her past guilt is her present redemption in trying to save her neighbor's child Henry. Finally Gretel is a marvelous narrator--honest but cagey, brave but often cowardly, a woman who is so complex and engaging that the reader is completely swept off their feet.
'Beautifully told and gripping from first page to last' Sunday Express 'An incredible feat of storytelling... and an old-fashioned page-turner' Donal Ryan 'Gripping and well-honed...consummately constructed, humming with tension' Guardian 'You can't prepare yourself for the magnitude and emotional impact of this powerful novel' John Irving ________________________________
From the author of the globally bestselling, multi-million-copy classic, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, comes its astonishing and powerful sequel.
Gretel Fernsby is a quiet woman leading a quiet life. She doesn't talk about her escape from Germany seventy years ago or the dark post-war years in France with her mother. Most…
Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!
On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…
In creating the character of James, based on the character Jim Hawkins in Huck Finn, Everett didn't just retell the original story from Jim's point of view. The author delved deeply into the world that a man like Jim Hawkins would have lived in- the constant need to hide, to explain, to take the punishment that the white people inflicted. It's important to understand what slavery was really like for the enslaved and therefore begin to understand what true freedom could look like.
'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' - Roddy Doyle, Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha
James by Percival Everett is a profound and ferociously funny meditation on identity, belonging and the sacrifices we make to protect the ones we love, which reimagines The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. From the author of The Trees, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Erasure, adapted into the Oscar-winning film American Fiction.
The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new…
